Teaching her how to program a computer is basically like giving her an infinite lego set. She can keep building new and interesting things as her interests chan

Teaching her how to program a computer is basically like giving her an infinite lego set. She can keep building new and interesting things as her interests change over time. I cannot overstate how impactful learning how to program was in my life. When I learned how to read, I could learn about anything that interested me. When I learned how to program, I could build anything that interested me: a website, a physics simulation, plot data I had collected. There are many resources for little kids to get started with the concepts, and as she grows older she can do things like create Jupyter notebooks for her projects, post about them, etc. The possibilities are endless.