On Mar 10, 3:33 pm, Brian Blais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I was wondering what the approximate minimum age to learn python is. <SNIP>> > > I wanted to hear responses from people who have experience teaching > programming in > elementary/middle (or even high) school. Do graphical languages make a big > difference? Do text-based languages put up barriers to young learners? Is > it no big > deal either way? > > thanks, > > Brian Blais
My two year old son is well on the way to becoming a great programmer ;-) He is learning to use the mouse and can navigate his way through the menus to the games and songs he likes when left on the cbeebies home page at http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/ and is currently trying to get coordinated enough to play a tobogganing game. Teaching method used was to spend too much time yourself on the laptop with son in lap watching Hi-5 or a Wombles video, on screen-2. Currently Dominic and I are potty training. After that we'll start on decorators and maybe weakref. - Paddy. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
