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You have a really weird idea of what an 11 year old is capable of.

• DanBC 9y ago
  Prefrontal cortex is still developing in 11 year olds which means they're not great at understanding consequences of actions or making complex future plans.
  • vidarh 9y ago
    But most of them are certainly capable of making the evaluation used as an example above.
    • xigency 9y ago
      Not to be the "prodigy" kid, but I began game programming at 10 years old because I wanted to know how games worked. I tried to buy a Visual Basic 5 book from Borders before my parents gave me "Beginning Programming for Dummies" instead. Not sure why these people don't believe that Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts can't tell the weather.
• 0xbear 9y ago
  Are sure it's me and not you? I have a 13 year old kid, and he still can't figure out that if he doesn't turn in his homework on time his grades will suck. :-)