One thing I'd like to see is a basics of programming, but from a functional perspective. What's the desired output for a given input? How can a complex transformation of input to output be decomposed into parts and put together into a full solution. This eliminates the many low-level details about programming, loops, nested-control structures, etc. It starts and ends 'one level' higher. e.g. take a collection, filter it using 'filter' passing in a 'condition'. No one should have to write for/if loops. That was for when machines were so slow that we were barely better than human 'assemblers' writing C.