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I remember having this argument with my Math Reasoning professor: how old should a child be before learning simple math logic? More appropriate here, let me as
by andreyf 19y ago
I remember having this argument with my Math Reasoning professor: how old should a child be before learning simple math logic?
More appropriate here, let me ask: how old does an average child have to be to comprehend all of the features of Lisp or Haskell?
- palish 19y agoChildren can solve puzzles from a very early age.. If learning to program is a puzzle, it isn't unreasonable to assume that a few could have an excellent command of programming by 18.
- andreyf 19y agoA few, by 18? I was looking for people to make the argument that most could, well before 10. I'm not talking about the skills that come with decades of experience, but just a conceptual understanding of the unique functions of the languages - functional and syntactic abstraction - closures, lisp macros, etc.
- ph0rque 19y agoIn Soviet Russia... No really, I remember learning about things like x + 2 = 5; solve for x in 2nd grade in Soviet Union. After immigrating to US, I recalled the level of math education we got in USSR. One teacher remarked that according to the development theories he was taught, it shouldn't even be possible for such young children to grasp such abstract ideas as variables. Good thing nobody told the Russians this fact.