Why is this nsfw? My kids would write better code than most people I've worked with. >.>
That said, I won't teach them "to code", I'll teach them to solve problems. If those problems are best solved by delegating an algorithm to some cheap hardware, then coding's the answer. If they're better solved by a phone call to a vendor, they'll learn to do that. Don't confuse the means for the end.
Don't teach kids to code. Tech them how to be kids instead. Coding is not for everyone, it is only for those that have a natural tendency to want to code. And you know that your kid want to code because he is going to ask for computer books and a computer himself.
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3 u/tame 19 May 2017 12:03
Why is this nsfw? My kids would write better code than most people I've worked with. >.>
That said, I won't teach them "to code", I'll teach them to solve problems. If those problems are best solved by delegating an algorithm to some cheap hardware, then coding's the answer. If they're better solved by a phone call to a vendor, they'll learn to do that. Don't confuse the means for the end.
1 u/roznak 19 May 2017 18:55
Don't teach kids to code. Tech them how to be kids instead. Coding is not for everyone, it is only for those that have a natural tendency to want to code. And you know that your kid want to code because he is going to ask for computer books and a computer himself.