My kids are always coming up with startup ideas. I decided the 10 yo is now old enough to hear the truth: if you want to start a startup, the thing to be doing at 10 is learning the things that will enable you to have good startup ideas at 20. How to program especially.
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it is convenient for programmers to think that
I wouldn't have spent so much of my life programming if I didn't believe it was deeply interesting. I'd have been hosing myself. And I am both fairly ambitious and know about a variety of different fields, so I'm not merely naively trudging along in some rut.
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I'm not saying that the stuff one does on an average day at the average startup is deeply interesting. But the fundamental concepts are, and so are some of the things you can do with programming.
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A subset of my kids' many ventures (from most to least profitable): fresh fruit & veggie snack delivery $$$ (B2B + recurring rev) firewood sales $$$ (semi-recurring rev) baked good stand $$ lemonade stand $ video game with tip jar rock saleshttps://geoffreygraham.com/2014/06/11/really-young-entrepreneurs/ …
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I think the most important life skill for kids at 10 or even less is problem solving, part of which also involves knowing how to code to solve or how to communicate enough to solve
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Curiosity teaches to code, ambition teaches why to code the combination of it makes anyone a problem solver for their age! I would rather be inquisitive to learn how to be curios, always! and how to have the ambition to move mountains despite all odds
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well right but the main thing you did is enable a lot of others to achieve things, which is indeed 100% laudable but is also 0% programming
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So, programming is just a tool and learning to use it well is beneficial in these times?
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