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Most of us, I think. I tried to introduce my daughter to programming two years ago (she was 7) using a very simple language I created specifically for the task
by luismedel 5y ago
Most of us, I think. I tried to introduce my daughter to programming two years ago (she was 7) using a very simple language I created specifically for the task (a mix between BASIC and Pascal) with no success. And that's not a bad thing. There's a lot of awesome interests out there for our children outside of computers.
Also, I think the main issue today is that "modern times" offers a radical range of enterteinment we didn't have in our times. If I was born today instead of 1980 I think I'd stuck with my early child dream: being a cartoonist.
- rawoke083600 5y ago>offers a radical range of enterteinment we didn't have in our times. I think this is the answer, while I was growing up and learning PASCAL and BASIC (Thank you dad) it was the only way to have access/play with "a computer". Nowadays there are much more shinier and prettier and lets face it more fun computers in our(theirs) immediate environment that does a lot more than "readline a; print a;"
- fatnoah 5y agoMy son had zero interest in command lines or programming until he got into Minecraft and Roblox. For the former, best mods are available for Java edition. Through that desire, he at least learned command prompt, basic directory navigation, and java -jar. For the latter, he wants to build a game, so we're learning some LUA together. Going through that process (we're very early in) has been great, since he also has ADHD and doing this work is helping with focus.