Re:Ask HN: Are you teaching your kids to code? (and how)
by galdosdi on Friday March 15, 2024 @07:56PM
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And yet, there is a big gap between encouraging a kid to grow up to work as a book author, and just teaching them to read. It is good for kids to learn the basics of many skills, even if they only end up using some of them
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Re:Ask HN: Are you teaching your kids to code? (and how)
by matt_s on Saturday March 16, 2024 @09:47AM
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Totally. Help them learn and try many different things, it will be obvious what they like and don't. When your kid is upset and crying about going to Cub scouts, repeatedly (not just a bad day), scouting isn't for them.
They like playing minecraft and building others recipes/formulas (not sure what to call them) for farming things. Their motivator isn't the curiosity of "how does this work" or "what can I build" like an engineer's mind, their motivator is competitively acquiring more than each other and their friends.