Impressed ★
Went to my cousin’s place after college. My cousin’s currently in 7th Grade at DPS VK and he had these doubts that he wanted to ask me for some Computer Science exam he has tomorrow. When he began by asking me stuff about Javascript for a slight moment I was in shock. I confirmed that it was part of his syllabus by looking at the DPS workbook that was distributed in his class.
Introducing Javascript at such an early stage is cool. I really think that’s how it should be in all schools. Unfortunately, most schools concentrate too much on what the CBSE places on their desks. DPS VK is certainly not one of them.
In college the state is the other way round, studies are the be all and end all of everything. The schedule of the average student at ANDC includes 5 hours of self-study everyday. That’s quite funny because there’s no research involved and what has to be done at home is covered at college itself. There’s really no difference between college and school. The teachers may be friendlier but the atmosphere has not changed. The semester system we follow is flawed, to be frank. There’s too much to be covered in very less time.
Anyway, I’m waiting for my exams to start as I want to get over with them fast. A long awaited break of 15 days follows.
DPS VK has JavaScript in class 7? Eh? I mean, WTF, I didn’t know about it; and certianly I can guarantee you NO teacher in our staff knows a shit about it. Who teaches him, BTW? And why on earth have I never EVER seen a kid using JavaScript in Code Wars Intra?
PS - Your bro interested in joining CW?
I don’t know about whether he’s interested. All I can say is that he knows a lot more than people his age do.
Sidharth Raja is his name…
Wow, that’s cool. Onkur, i suppose it would rain Code Warriors now… class 7th guys know JS? Its an interesting step in generating aptitude at an early age, I will it was done in my time… ;)
It’s not that impressive actually (I taught my sis for the same test.) Basically, the syllabus is HTML and a teeny weeny bit of JS. ‘alerts’ are the only thing they get out of this, which are quite useless so no wonder no one uses them at CW Intra. They’re also taught ‘prompts’, which includes variables, data types, all those basics which aren’t taught. The assignment booklet uses functions like parseInt, where they don’t even know what it basically does, ‘coz they have no idea whatsoever about data types. My sis’ teacher (its Mrs. M, Ankur) expects them to mug the whole example that adds 2 numbers up.
Next semester has Flash, that will be interesting.
We too did all this in class 8th (2001 or so), we did Visual Java and we actually understood and did it.
Although no one uses VJ now :P
Again, I’m really glad your schools started this at such an early stage. I only speak of the exposure one gets at that age. The problem is everyone still treats it like an exam.
I wonder if we could collectively generate interest in schools by giving student incentives like prizes, etc.
WTF!!! Mrs M teaches fucking JavaScript to students, even if it’s just alert boxes?!!!! [faints]