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There's definitely more you could do with education. A lot of professional programmers are people who started doing programming as a hobby as kids. Attempting t

There's definitely more you could do with education. A lot of professional programmers are people who started doing programming as a hobby as kids. Attempting to teach programming to 20-year-olds entering an university seems to not work terribly well, while the basics can be picked by a 10-year old. If you waited until people are 20 to start teaching them to read and write, you would probably also get poor results, while the weird kids who learned to read for fun when they were 12 would end up outperforming the regular students when they grew up.

jeremyjh 14y ago
This is a very interesting idea. It certainly seems plausible, I wonder if anyone has studied it.
suby 14y ago
On the other side of the coin, people who picked up programming as a hobby while they were 10 might have picked up some rather nasty habits that need to be unlearned, where as someone who is learning in school at age 20 won't have those problems.
- eru 14y ago
  Depends on the schooling, too.