Go back in time. More than 20 years ago, when I first came into contact with computers, it was probably when junior high school was about to go to high school. My mother bought a computer in the factory, which is said to be used to control their filling production line. But now I think it is not necessarily because this computer is not in the workshop, but in the office area, and it has been used for word processing for a long time. I also practiced typing on this computer. I didn't expect to be a professional programmer with a computer, and I felt that I had experienced a software explosion.

On weekends, my uncle comes to play at home. I heard that children play programming now, and I was surprised to say why I learned this. University studies civil structure, and architectural design institute uses computer to draw drawings. After chatting for a while, it turns out that his understanding is still limited to the cognition of black screen typing code ... The understanding of software is data calculation and application software. When I look after the children again, I can already use a few building blocks to make the tractor follow the mouse. A group of small animals followed the tractor. I think it should be okay to play for a few minutes. As a result, people say that the tractor stopped for a while, and then it turned round and round. What should I do if the old cow fainted? Have fun alone.

Many classmates and friends' children have become primary school students, and everyone is laughing. In the future, they will not be as leisure as kindergarten. Looking at the immature faces of children in the circle of friends and sitting in the classroom, it seems that there is not much difference between us before. What kind of talents does the world need after graduation in 20 years? I remember when I was in college, we designed a little game for the first time. We thought it was great. Now children learn to use Scratch programming to operate cars when they are 6 or 7 years old.

Lifelong learning ability

Only from the perspective of software development, the sources of big data-mobile phones and Internet of Things devices, plus AI, one as input and the other as output, have penetrated into all aspects of our lives in the past 10 years, and this trend will only get stronger and stronger. We don't need everyone to write programs, and we don't necessarily need to know the details of every algorithm, but we must know what software can do for us, so as to help us use technology.

From the perspective of learning and education, the children we are looking forward to training in contemporary times have made a qualitative leap compared with the previous era. In the past, we may have taught them some basic knowledge plus professional knowledge in a certain field, which has been a successful education. Now, there is no doubt that what we need is talents with lifelong learning ability, so that they can have a broad general knowledge base with methodology, at the same time have the ability of self-learning and growth, can think and explore independently, and can cultivate such people.