My 7-Year Old Daughter’s First Programming Experience

Re:My 7-Year Old Daughter’s First Programming Experience by mehrdada on Sunday April 06, 2014 @07:16PM (#7543649)

I started using DOS to run games at around 4, when my dad bought a PC, and taught myself batch programming and QBASIC when I was 6, so I think the ages you mentioned are probably correct.

(For many months, I had no idea there is such a thing as "else", so I used to end the body of "if" statements with a "goto" to jump over the next few statements to emulate the effect of an else clause.)

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Re:My 7-Year Old Daughter’s First Programming Experience by idancali on Sunday April 06, 2014 @07:43PM (#7543764)

haha that's awesome, I had no idea about a lot of stuff when learning but that's the amazing thing, you don't need to know everything to get started and start building things, and that's what scares people off, they think they have to get a math or comp sci degree to code something basic

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