Lucas Raab wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am blessed with a *very* gifted nine-years old daughter... > > Now, I would like to teach her programming basics using Python > > Let her mess around with it on her own. I'm 15 and have been using > Python for 2-3 years and had nothing to really go on. Give her Dive Into > Python or How to Think Like a Computer Scientist and let her ask > questions if she needs help.
In the chess world, people have long learnt to take young prodigies seriously. Most of the grandmasters start to play chess at age 4 or earlier. Bobby Fisher became the US chess champion at age 14, and a grandmaster at 15. And that's considered old by modern standard: Sergei Karjakin became grandmaster at age 12. http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=310 http://members.lycos.co.uk/csarchive/gilbert.htm Sure, programming's skill set is a bit broader than chess playing or ice-skating, but young hackers have plenty of contacts and resources through internet, and many of them live (will be living) in Brazil, Russia, India and China (the so-called BRIC countries.) So, a thorny question for matured programmers is: what's your value in face of this competition? :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
