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> But, to get children started on programming is always a great idea, and as all of us young devs grow we will want to share the dev experience with our kids. I

> But, to get children started on programming is always a great idea, and as all of us young devs grow we will want to share the dev experience with our kids. If they can make that possible I think they'll have a home run on their hands. This is worth repeating. Kids are, in general, fabulously creative and completely open minded with new technology. I can see all sorts of fun, frivolous, nefarious and downright evil uses for a simple app maker that works on any kid's phone. Little Johnny makes a simple set of static pages that stores crib notes for his classes. Evil Britney, who has a few more coding chops, comes up with an app that screen-scrapes the yearbook site and lets her friends rate all the boys in her year (she got the idea from The Social Network.) If these guys can get their teeth into that market either officially (through schools) or via the terrifyingly powerful playground word-of-mouth network, this could become quite big. It's a hell of a long shot though.

doublerebel 14y ago
That's why even though I am skeptical, I gave them an upvote. Kids also have a ton of time and are very tolerant of things not working right on the first try. If I could amuse myself with Logo and BASIC (and later on, writing class notes and formula-solvers in graphing calculators), then I'm sure modern-day kids could take a system like Magikai to places I can't imagine. None of the other frameworks I am aware of even consider kids as a target market.
- edfg 14y ago
  thanks for great response! I would love to talk to you further. If you like to contact me via the email in my info
  - doublerebel 14y ago
    Hi Eddie, no contact info shows for me in your HN profile. But, feel free to contact me through any channel, I am doublerebel everywhere.
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edfg 14y ago
thanks for great response! I would love to talk to you further. If you like to contact me via the email in my info

doublerebel 14y ago

That's why even though I am skeptical, I gave them an upvote. Kids also have a ton of time and are very tolerant of things not working right on the first try. If I could amuse myself with Logo and BASIC (and later on, writing class notes and formula-solvers in graphing calculators), then I'm sure modern-day kids could take a system like Magikai to places I can't imagine. None of the other frameworks I am aware of even consider kids as a target market.

edfg 14y ago
thanks for great response! I would love to talk to you further. If you like to contact me via the email in my info
- doublerebel 14y ago
  Hi Eddie, no contact info shows for me in your HN profile. But, feel free to contact me through any channel, I am doublerebel everywhere.

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edfg 14y ago

thanks for great response! I would love to talk to you further. If you like to contact me via the email in my info