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I tried giving my oldest a Minecraft Redstone lesson. The youngest was also watching, but considering he's a little too young I was focusing on the oldest. The
by dyingkneepad 3y ago
I tried giving my oldest a Minecraft Redstone lesson. The youngest was also watching, but considering he's a little too young I was focusing on the oldest. The oldest listened and nodded to everything, but never ever built a redstone contraption since then, no interest at all (despite the fact that his world would dramatically improve with some of the stuff I taught him). On the other hand, the youngest now often gets to Creative mode and makes dozens and dozens of contraptions using observer clocks, pistons, trapdoors and dispensers.
You can show them that it's an option and give them an introduction, but you can't force them to be interested. They need to be ready and need to choose it.
- actfrench 3y agoHow interesting! I'm curious if your children have different personality types that would natural give one more proclivity towards coding than another? Also, kudos to you for the great child-led learning:)
- dyingkneepad 3y agoThey both have very different personalities, but I actually thought the oldest would be more inclined to do programming, the logic part of his brain works flawlessly, he is really really good with raw logic. He's the kind of kid that finds plot holes in TV shows.