Code Perspective » Young age http://codeperspective.ca Coding is awesome Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:51:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Software at a young age http://codeperspective.ca/2008/12/10/software-at-a-young-age/ http://codeperspective.ca/2008/12/10/software-at-a-young-age/#comments Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:02:10 +0000 Mark Hazlett http://codeperspective.ca/blog/?p=10 I came across an article on the very popular slashdot.com tonight that was very interesting in my opinion. The article is a user based question asking which language is best to teach 11-14 year olds with varying computer knowledge. The article found here, surprised me very much when I looked at it the first time.

Now this may be because of changing times and school’s are getting more computer literate now, but, wow, 11-14 year olds now have computer programming as part of their curriculum? This is extremely great to hear! I just wish that we would have had something like that back when I was in school and that age. Even if just basic concepts are taught like loops, variables, etc, it opens up the possibility of programming to be taught at a very young age.

This being said, I think we will see a major jump in programming skills in the next 10-20 years as more kids are now being taught these things earlier. This leads to maybe the posibility of an even easy language than maybe Basic or QBasic to be able to teach the fundamentals at a younger age.

I think that there is a dark side to this as well. Computer programming will take away from fundamental subjects such as math, science, and social studies that all kids must learn to be successful. This could be good or bad, up for you to decide…

Cheers

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