Walter Milner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >A while back Papert in Mindstorms proposed that young children be taught to >program in Logo, and that this would enhance their cognitive development and >expose them to 'powerful ideas'.
I don't know if the programming language has as much of an impact as the kids' age and their desire to learn programming. From my (limited) knowledge of child psychology I wouldn't want to try and teach anyone under the age of about 12-13 programming, because you'd end up having to use a very constrained concepts and programming techniques, and more or less run into a brick wall in some areas until their mental development advances. Secondly, you can't just turn anyone into a programmer. In the 1980s there were kids learning to program using 6502 and Z80 assembly language, hardly a friendly environment, but what made it work is that they really *wanted* to do this. You can lead a kid to a computer, but most of them will only want to play Counterstrike. Peter. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PPIG Discuss List (discuss@ppig.org) Discuss admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/discuss Announce admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/announce PPIG Discuss archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40ppig.org/
