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I disagree. That approach might work for teaching CS to college students, but most young children would find it boring. A much larger percentage would find the
by Zak 14y ago
I disagree. That approach might work for teaching CS to college students, but most young children would find it boring. A much larger percentage would find the idea of making an interactive story fun than would enjoy learning about the low-level mechanics of a computer.
- ThomPete 14y agoWhy do you think they would find it boring?
- Zak 14y agoIn part, because I did. I started with BASIC, but didn't really get in to it before being introduced to Hypercard. With that, I could make cool stuff almost immediately. A year or so later, I was told that real programming meant programming in C, so I tried that. It made me lose interest in programming for quite some time, as I couldn't imagine making any of the things I wanted to make with it. It's more or less the same issue that affects technically cool products that don't actually address the needs of consumers.
- ThomPete 14y agoYou are asuming that everyone is like you? Bad premise to begin with. There are a lot of children to whom programming isn't even in their vocabulary, but storytelling is.
- Zak 14y agoI also remember other kids learning to program as pre-teens or early teens. Most of them wanted to learn to program so they could make things, not for its own sake. Most things that were interesting to them would be burdensome to write in C.