In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michele Simionato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >But here I am discussing other kind of intellectual capabilities, >in particular the ability to learn a programming language. > >I think the problem most kids face is *not* lack of intellectual >capability, but lack of concentration. Most kids cannot keep >their concentration focused on a single topic for a long period >of time, so they start one thing and never finish it, since >they have a thousand other little things to do in the mean time.
That's part of it. Another issue is that general problem-solving skills do increase with experience. I also think that programming ability tracks reading/writing ability to at least some extent, and while there are child prodigies with language, they seem to be rarer than smaller skillsets. -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "The joy of coding Python should be in seeing short, concise, readable classes that express a lot of action in a small amount of clear code -- not in reams of trivial code that bores the reader to death." --GvR -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
