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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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