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Every child should be shown how to program for a few days, but merely so that those few who are genuinely interested get to know that programming "exists".
by deletes 13y ago
Every child should be shown how to program for a few days, but merely so that those few who are genuinely interested get to know that programming "exists".
- yaddayadda 13y agoAnd if they are genuinely interested, that they have access to the necessary resources to continue. In middle school we had a two week section on computers and programming, which I absolutely devoured. But I didn't have access to the computer lab again in middle school, the two high schools I attended didn't even have computer labs, and my family wouldn't own a computer until more than a decade later. :-(
- gsaines 13y agoMy first computer was my father's Amstrad '86 with a whopping 1MHz processor and 512k of RAM. He bought it so he could work on his master's thesis in the late 80s. A friend of mine in high school (during the early 00's) got his first computer in the late nineties and he bought it with own cash because his parents didn't think computers were worth it. By that time I knew a lot more about computers just by having it around the house. Simply put, you're right: access is a huge issue.
- gsaines 13y agoDefinitely. I didn't even know what programming was until I was about 20 years old in college, and this was after I'd settled on a major. After graduating and starting my first startup, I saw my two cofounders working on the website the first week or two and actually said "Wait, THAT'S programming?" I thought it was exclusively for making rabbit simulators in Java or something. Our goal is to get more people exposed to it earlier. I wish someone had told me, and hopefully CodeCombat will tell other kids!