Teaching Kids Java Programming

Re:Teaching Kids Java Programming by carsongross on Monday December 22, 2014 @03:47PM (#8785121)

If java had a program notion, that'd help a lot.

  class MyMain {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
       System.out.println( "Hello World" )
    }
  }

How many unnecessary concepts are there between the beginner and something interesting happening? I count at least six...

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Re:Teaching Kids Java Programming by debacle on Monday December 22, 2014 @03:55PM (#8785164)

You can explain every piece of that scaffolding to a 12 year old in about half an hour and then they never really have to think about it again.

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Re:Teaching Kids Java Programming by emidln on Monday December 22, 2014 @04:24PM (#8785328)

How many of those 12 year olds tune you out in that half of an hour? I guarantee that if it took me a half hour of professional instruction, I would not have been programming at 12 years old (I was, in Python).

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Re:Teaching Kids Java Programming by debacle on Monday December 22, 2014 @04:39PM (#8785406)

Well my sample size is 1, but if I extrapolate irresponsibly, all of them.

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