I wonder if a thousand years ago the readers of the world thought that only certain people had an aptitude for reading. =====
As a professional coder and father of young children I find Dethe's anecdote of teaching his children to code/program at an early age has me thinking I need to take another stab at showing Scratch again to my children. On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Dethe Elza <de...@livingcode.org> wrote: > On 2011-06-14, at 12:33 PM, BGB wrote: > > > much younger, and it is doubtful people can do much of anything useful. > > can you teach programming to a kindergartner?... > > maybe not such a good idea, so, it is an issue for what a good > lower-limit is for where to try. > > > My kids learned to program around kindergarten/first grade. My son started > with Scratch when he was six and is now teaching himself Javascript/Raphael > and HTML/CSS at age 10. > > One advantage graphic tools like Scratch have for younger learners is that > they don't have to know how to type, just read and write. Having the syntax > enforced by the structure of the blocks helps too (no typos, no syntax > errors, in addition to the aforementioned enforced strong typing). > > --Dethe > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > fonc@vpri.org > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc >
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