The last paragraph ("You’re teaching them the world is full of interesting things to discover. [..] Adults can learn syntax. Only kids can learn to embrace curi

The last paragraph ("You’re teaching them the world is full of interesting things to discover. [..] Adults can learn syntax. Only kids can learn to embrace curiosity.") is why teaching some of the basics is probably a good idea, I think. Just as teaching/showing the basics of many things is a good idea. I agree with this article that some organisations (and parents) are too focused on practical programming skills at a far too young of an age, but that doesn't mean that showing some basic stuff isn't a good idea. Ideally I'd like my kids to be exposed to many different experiences, including the experience of making a computer "do stuff". I wrote a brief article on this last year: https://arp242.net/weblog/kids-programming.html https://arp242.net/weblog/kids-programming.html