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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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?
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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Children begin "engineering" long before they are introduced to code
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Yes definitely! I can see it in trying to learn to speak even (maybe reverse engineering but still). Do you know of good toys/resources to help? I have some nieces in mind at the moment but also my own kids down the line.
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