On 2011-06-14, at 12:33 PM, BGB wrote: > much younger, and it is doubtful people can do much of anything useful. > can you teach programming to a kindergartner?... > maybe not such a good idea, so, it is an issue for what a good lower-limit is > for where to try.
My kids learned to program around kindergarten/first grade. My son started with Scratch when he was six and is now teaching himself Javascript/Raphael and HTML/CSS at age 10. One advantage graphic tools like Scratch have for younger learners is that they don't have to know how to type, just read and write. Having the syntax enforced by the structure of the blocks helps too (no typos, no syntax errors, in addition to the aforementioned enforced strong typing). --Dethe _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
