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>It's not hard to code, children do it. It is hard to code, and average children don't do it. The fact that exceptional children do it more than they do other
by Jiro 5y ago
>It's not hard to code, children do it.
It is hard to code, and average children don't do it. The fact that exceptional children do it more than they do other adult things is because coding doesn't require a lot of expensive equipment and you can afford to do it as a kid.
- IggleSniggle 5y agoYes, and also I think also because it is possible for it to be a self-isolated system; you don’t need as much greater context of the world to make sense of its rules.
- duped 5y agoI strongly disagree with this. It is easy to code and any child or adult can do it. The typical problems we solve with code are hard, and can only be solved with code. Consider the quadratic formula. It's trivial to write this code. That's not a hard problem to teach anyone to solve with code. Or calculating compound interest. Or solving payroll and basic accounting. All these things are done with spreadsheets as the abstraction instead of code because of the myth that "code is hard." Code is not hard, it's just we use it to solve problems that are so hard we can't do it with spreadsheets.
- Jiro 5y agoThe steps needed to convert the quadratic formula to code are absolutely not trivial, unless you're a geek. If I went to my mother trying to tell her to code a quadratic formula, she'd have no idea how to do it, even if I explained everything. Spreadsheets are hard too.