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Re:Ask HN: How to best teach a group of children how to code? by mattmanser on Friday January 27, 2017 @12:26PM (#13501114)
If you think about it, it's imitating how a lot of us auto-didacts learnt to code, especially in the 2000s.

Got some script for modifying a game or an excel function or some code that doesn't quite do what we want it to. Bash it with random changes until you suddenly fix/change/etc. it.

Get a bit addicted, rinse, repeat, suddenly a month later you can understand most of the code.

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Re:Ask HN: How to best teach a group of children how to code? by 6stringmerc on Friday January 27, 2017 @12:32PM (#13501169)
Can verify pulling apart the Southwest Airlines website back in the day with my HTML book on my lap was quite edifying.
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