From your tutoring/mentoring experience, how young do you think children can learn to code? Is the limiter language learning (English not programming, to read docs or interpret functions/variables), math, abstract concepts like variables/objects/props, or something else?
One day we'll recognize the power of children & young adults to generate. It's a real power that we affirm only for those deemed "gifted," a status we confer not necessarily to empower but also to limit — to "safe" tracks. Not just bc we're afraid *for,* but bc we're afraid *of.*
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IMO the practical limiter, beyond some early developmental reqs, is some baseline knowledge permitting an interest in access points to abstract ideas re: classes of thing. One has to be allowed to touch, play with & provoke the physical in order to find value in underlying rules
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with you on this till the bitter end
https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1043945932625080320?s=21 … -
“children playing with frames must be limited or they might do inconvenient things like challenge us to confront our failings and we can’t have that”https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1145581243007827968?s=21 …
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This is true.
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