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Is it actually good to be encouraging hackathons at progressively younger ages? I believe we generally agree here that hackathons are not good for generating ma
by sweettea 13y ago
Is it actually good to be encouraging hackathons at progressively younger ages? I believe we generally agree here that hackathons are not good for generating maintainable code or encouraging best practices, and teaching high schoolers to pull long hours and not follow good practices is tantamount to teaching them how to burn out of programming later.
- jsinger8728 13y agoIt's one of those things that gets people into coding. It may not be a viable learning strategy, but it's enough to get someone hooked.