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Re:Show HN: Programming Time - Playing card game to teach yo... by keerthiko on Thursday February 24, 2022 @10:21PM (#30463382)
> I believe typing in early age will lead to carpal-tunnel syndrome so I'm not pushing my kids to learn typing.

Typing extensively and without proper ergonomics will lead to carpal-tunnel and other syndromes. Not teaching them proper posture and typing ergonomics as kids means when they inevitably have to use computers in school/college/work, they will be much more likely to develop a strain-based condition.

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Re:Show HN: Programming Time - Playing card game to teach yo... by antattack on Thursday February 24, 2022 @10:38PM (#30463461)
I would argue there's no 'proper posture' for child's hands on adult sized keyboards and keys.
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Re:Show HN: Programming Time - Playing card game to teach yo... by throwaway47292 on Friday February 25, 2022 @03:16AM (#30464834)
backspace and enter are especially an issue, i teach her to use ctrl+h and ctrl+j capslock being control, on windows i made https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/tree/master/... to help with that
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