In Romanian high schools they learn c++ and maybe soem high schools might still teach Pascal. This is the reality, before high school I helped him with some Lua

In Romanian high schools they learn c++ and maybe soem high schools might still teach Pascal. This is the reality, before high school I helped him with some Lua scripting in Gary's mod so he is a bit familiar already with concepts as variables, if, comparisons etc. >The reason why it is not "junk" is that it will teach him a bunch of important things: that you can "talk" to a computer using different languages, that those languages have different capabilities, different properties and different grammars (syntax), and that languages are all about grammar and semantics. My point is not that he should not know about the low level stuff eventually, but keep that for the second or third year. But int he end the reality s that we write text and some tool makes it run and print stuff on screen, is not important that everyone understands that the compiler has 3 parts/stages and that the linker searches for stuff in some weird paths using some weird algorithm... for first years of teaching I think is OK we focus on understanding the fundamentals and not the tools, we would waste our time teaching them about the c++ linker or Java classpath if they will use Python or JS in the real world. I identified 2 hard parts 1 create the solution for the problem, like say add all numbers from 1 to n , my son can't invent the solution, I have to make with him similar problems over and over again until things connect (is the same for Math and physics, we repeat same type of problem until it makes sense and he can solve them himself) 2 the syntax, I can work with him, make some simple programs and next week he fails to use "cout" and "cin" properly , this means I failed to identify that he did not properly understand how this crap works and have to do more examples with cout and cin too.