nd what s great about many of the Computer Science development tools they are (mostl

y) free. Many international level companies (such as Microsoft, Google, and Appl
e) and universities (Carnegie Melon & M.I.T.) provide almost everything FREE of
charge. So, schools with limited economic resources can actually design and impl
ement a good Computer Science program.
Educators love to say that we embrace failure and that we ve got to let our studen
ts fail. But, in reality we do not do that. When a student fails a test, we send
letter home to the parents, the advisor is notified, the teacher writes on the
test Johnny, I was expecting much better than this . The student s average goes down.
Johnny probably gets grounded at home and the parents start asking about tutors
. That low grade may keep him from entering honors and AP classes. It may keep h
er out of certain colleges. It may keep him from receiving certain awards. Hmmmm .
far from embracing failure, huh?