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My dad taught me to use HyperCard and ResEdit at about that age as well. This idea that it's futile to try to teach young kids to code is bizarre to me. I can o

My dad taught me to use HyperCard and ResEdit at about that age as well. This idea that it's futile to try to teach young kids to code is bizarre to me. I can only assume that it comes from people trusting their intuitions without actually observing reality.

vezzy-fnord 13y ago
It's futile unless they show voluntary interest in the subject. I started off in elementary school, but it was motivated entirely through my own volition.
seiji 13y ago
We should teach 5 year olds computers with technology available in 1993. QBASIC, Logo, HyperCard, ... (Not joking.)
- pjungwir 13y ago
  Yes! My oldest is 4.5, and I'm thinking about how to assemble a text-only machine to force typing, learning commands, navigating the file system, etc. Might as well start him off with linux and bash instead of DOS and batch, though. :-)
- mathattack 13y ago
  Doesn't MIT's Scratch [1] accomplish this? I was going to default to this. I'm wondering how much reading, writing and math my kids need to have before starting this. Reading complex sentences and addition and multiplication of single digits? (Wrong thread to get started on what EWD [2] thinks on this...) [1] http://scratch.mit.edu http://scratch.mit.edu [2] http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1036.html http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EW...