Truthfully I do think there is something to the 10 year rule but I think very very few coders before college are doing mindful practice
@skamille I wonder if github etc changes that? As a preteen I just hacked away blindly with nothing and nobody good to learn from.
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@avibryant yeah I don't know, probably 13 year olds now are way savvier than my generation. But few people truly self teach well, so. -
@skamille what I'm wondering is if 13 year olds are submitting pull requests and getting real feedback. -
@avibryant how often does that happen for anyone, whatever their age? I honestly don't know -
@skamille@avibryant 1: naive early practice. find sea legs. 2: maintain others' bad code, have oh-shit moment. 3: learn how to do better
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@avibryant@skamille I do think that the internet (github, coursera, …) should change this, but is it too intimidating or not discoverable? -
@etrepum@avibryant I personally think github would've been way way too intimidating for me at 13 (or even 23). Codeacademy coursera maybe -
@skamille@avibryant HS students@missionbit used GitHub, but just for their own projects. I didn't see them poking around much elsewhere
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@avibryant@skamille Yeah, I learned solely from magazines and books until I got to college and the Internet was finally prevelant. -
@avibryant@skamille There was absolutely no one to mentor me in my small rural Idaho town. I was well past my high school CS teacher.
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