Great Article on Kids and Programming

Peter sent me a link and a copy of an article from Salon titled "Why Johnny Can't Code" - no commentary from me (yet). Just read the article and post some comments if you have them. I'd especially like to hear from some younger readers on what they think...

Read it here.

Comments

Anonymous said…
Hi, I'm 12 years old, and a few years back, I went to a QBASIC workshop. I used it for quite a while, trying to make some games, calculating what weekday your birthday was on... Recently I downloaded Python and I have been experimenting with that. I think that learning QBASIC has made it a lot easier to learn Python and RobotC.

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