ok, but even if you did full time hands on study of computing then you&#x27;re still starting from a 0-basis foundation of knowledge on entering since there is no formal education before that.<p>and a little like hub networking we can only operate at the rate of the slowest peer. We can&#x27;t &quot;negotiate up&quot; the curriculum.<p>so it&#x27;s a waste of time and resources for many people. - like another poster said though there is a lot of mathematics involved so it&#x27;s not like I&#x27;m saying it&#x27;s useless, just that it&#x27;s certainly not necessary and that we should be (and are) putting computers into the hands of children rather than teaching people -only once they arrive at university- about how computers function.