I've been volunteering once a week at a local school teaching 6th graders how to code, and it's really amazing how quickly many of them pick it up. Even small t

I've been volunteering once a week at a local school teaching 6th graders how to code, and it's really amazing how quickly many of them pick it up. Even small things like learning to mix blue and red to make purple using rgb(255,0,255) is utterly fascinating to them. I asked one of the kids how he would like it if they taught programming as a subject in school. His eyes just lit up and said "that would be awesome". It's also fun talking to kids about startups - the fact that you can use code to solve problems for people and start a business. They're usually more interested in building a fun game but still, you can see some flickers of awareness lighting up. A lot of these kids are selling candy to each other at school anyway, so they're pretty entrepreneurial by nature. I guess this is a long winded way of saying that teaching kids to code is one of the most rewarding and challenging things you can do, and I'd highly recommend it to anyone on the fence.