Re:Teaching My Daughter To Code
by marketer on Sunday January 20, 2008 @11:16PM
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Kids have a poor grasp of logic and cause/effect, so you can only teach kids what is in their "zone of proximity". For instance, it might be better to teach kids how to manipulate an existing program, like changing the color of a circle that is being drawn, or changing the radius. Slowly, you could introduce more complexity in the modifications. Trying to teach kids a language outright wouldn't be feasible.
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Nonsense. I started learning QBASIC when I was 5 and was competent by 6. That's not a fluke; one of my elementary school classmates in a class of 40 started just as early, and in fourth grade a second friend easily picked up Visual Basic on his own when I introduced him to it. I'm very happy that my parents never learned about Piaget.