Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Teach a Kid to Program / Wired How To's

Teach a Kid to Program / Wired How To's

This is a really awesome article on getting young kids excited about programming. The author of the Geek Dad blog is soliciting suggestions for programming languages to start a 5 year old on! Let's see, what would Caitlin like more, PERL or Visual C++?

To a lot of people this might seem silly, but as familiar as the average 5 year old is with computers now, it is becoming more and more realistic. Imagine how mainstream computers will be in 2012 when Caitlin turns 5.

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