Brian Blais wrote: > Hello, > > I was wondering what the approximate minimum age to learn python is. Has > anyone had > experience teaching middle school students, or elementary school students > Python? > What brought this up for me is thinking about starting a Lego robots group in > a local > middle school. I only teach college, and have little experience with middle > school > students, so I find it hard to guess what they could actually do. I started > programming when I was about 5th grade, on a Commodore VIC 20 (3.5k RAM!) in > basic, > but I don't think I am typical.
Our elementary school taught LOGO on the Apple II in either 3rd or 4th grade, and the more advance math students got some BASIC by 5th grade. It was just a regular school, so it seems to me like kids in the age range you're discussing are fully capable of learning at least some programming. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
