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My son is almost 6 and I can say with near certainty that he will learn to code regardless of what I have to say about it. He is absolutely mesmerized by comput
by jkhdigital 6y ago
My son is almost 6 and I can say with near certainty that he will learn to code regardless of what I have to say about it. He is absolutely mesmerized by computers and as soon as he discovers that he can tell them exactly what to do he will most likely teach himself. It’s exactly what I did—my father worked at IBM and we always had a fairly capable PC at home but he was a mechanical engineer so I was on my own for learning to code.
I really hope we don’t add coding to the laundry list of rote skills that kids are evaluated on in school. Sure, make it available for those who are interested, but let’s be honest—most kids will have little interest in coding, and forcing them to learn it anyways will not provide any lasting benefit.
- _curious_ 6y ago"I really hope we don’t add coding to the laundry list of rote skills that kids are evaluated on in school." Why?
- sebastialonso 6y agoSeriously. > Sure, make it available for those who are interested, but let’s be honest—most kids will have little interest in coding, and forcing them to learn it anyways will not provide any lasting benefit. This could apply to mathematically skills also. Personally, I would never raise any kids under this ideology. It seems to foster ignorance and conformism.
- slim 6y agoyou can't tell. my kid was like that at 6 and now he's 14 and he's only interested in gaming, marginally hacking (rooting his console and playing pirate games) but not writing code. I feel he finds it boring, too tedious, error prone, repetitive process.