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Re:My 7-Year Old Daughter’s First Programming Experience by exue on Sunday April 06, 2014 @07:39PM (#7543751)
With web programming, a lot of the initial hassle and set up is gone, and visual learning/iteration by hitting refresh is very easy. So I would say, almost as young as they can play around with a web browser, and type on a computer. You can immediately start seeing results by typing in the Chrome inspector console. I think even a 4-year-old would be able to understand an if/else, but I'm not behavioral psychologist.
Re:My 7-Year Old Daughter’s First Programming Experience by idancali on Sunday April 06, 2014 @07:45PM (#7543768)
yeah that's a good point; I really wonder about conditional statements though, I think control flow should be straight forward, but I would think you might need to start off with variables and primitives at least.. what do you think?
Re:My 7-Year Old Daughter’s First Programming Experience by exue on Sunday April 06, 2014 @08:18PM (#7543905)
Agreed - you can't really do much without variables/primitives first. Which are might be conceptually harder to grasp