I recently notice a trend that some of parents push their kids to learn programming at young ages. I wonder if it actually helps them. so, when did you start learning to program? Do you think it actually helped you?
I wrote my first infinite loop in 4ty grade using Q basic by accident. I don’t think this exposure made me a better programmer but maybe I’m wrong about that. I didn’t really start coding until 11th grade taking Pascal in high school. Then taught myself C and then C++.
Did it help?
I went to a kids summer camp fair a couple months ago, and it seemed like half the camps were stuff like coding, robotics, STEM.
Grad school.
In my first job.
How do you land a coding job without coding experience?
Children below 11-12 years of age have hard time understanding abstract concepts. I believe 12 is a good age, if you want them to start learning to code. Btw I started coding in junior high.
I second this with my personal anecdote. I started learning to program at 10 and could barely comprehend if statements then at some point when I was 12/13 all of it clicked simultaneously. It’s like puberty unlocks your ability to use logic haha
My dad showed me FoxPro, Basic at his work when I was just 5 years old back in early 90's he bought me a 386 and that's how I started programming. My first program was a solar system in basics running in Dos or Win 3.0.
Apparently everyone here is in their 20s.
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Where's the option, yesterday or don't know how to program?