Timeline for What is good age to start learning programming?
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| Nov 12, 2018 at 16:58 | comment | added | Chris H | I'm another one who started BASIC at 8 (with help - a maths homework puzzle involving palindromic numbers) and by 10 was writing my own simple stuff in another flavour of basic. I ended up in physics, doing lots of scripting and having written a little production code. Another anecdata point to suggets this is a reasonable age. You needed (pre-internet) a certain level of reading compression that a reasonably bright kid should have by that age | |
| Nov 12, 2018 at 16:00 | comment | added | kpollock | I said "guess", and "probably". I don't consider I was unusually bright or advanced (fairly bright and interested), so I therefore have a gut feeling many kids would also be Ok. And you are right, I did not elaborate. People familar with both js and machine code will (I hope) get my meaning, others not. If my answer is generally not seen as useful, I have no objections to it being deleted. | |
| Nov 12, 2018 at 15:43 | comment | added | thesecretmaster♦ | @kpollock I don't think you've really explained why you think that most 10+ year olds will be able to learn JS. I don't see the logical steps that say "I learned these things at age 10 therefore everyone can learn these things at age 10" and "These things are analogous to JS." | |
| Nov 12, 2018 at 15:28 | comment | added | kpollock | Not sure what you want as explanantion. It was all nearly 40 years ago. I guess I mean that I was very capable of working with some pretty abstract concepts by the age of 10. | |
| Nov 10, 2018 at 9:16 | comment | added | forest | @thesecretmaster It's been that way for an entire generation of people using personal computers before Microsoft and Apple. It's worked for many others. And another generation with TI-BASIC. :P | |
| Nov 9, 2018 at 15:37 | comment | added | thesecretmaster♦ | Thank you for sharing your experiance! Would you mind editing to add some explanation as to why you think learning at age 10 worked well for you and why you think others would be similar? | |
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| Nov 9, 2018 at 14:53 | history | answered | kpollock | CC BY-SA 4.0 |