Teaching our five year old to code by cheating
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Re: Teaching our five year old to code by cheating
#2if int(guess) == int(lulu + boonie):
There ... I fixed it.
Re: Teaching our five year old to code by cheating
#3Nice article! I liked the "I can use code to do anything." remark. It's so true! I assume you're the author.
How did you pitch the idea of coding with her? While I don't have children yet, I love the idea of coding together with them, but I'm not sure how to get them to do it. Especially with minecraft and other way flashier options available to them.
Re: Teaching our five year old to code by cheating
#4I've been frustrated by the magnified expectations of kids w.r.t. programming because they play sophisticated games compared to the pong/bricks/tetris of my highschool days. Very hard to satisfy my kids with doing, say, turtle graphics. I'm yet to try Minecraft programming (need windows machine) but that might do it for them as they're into Minecraft.
I had a blip of a realization one day when idly talking to the 6yr old with a prolog terminal at hand. Documented that here - http://sriku.org/blog/2019/07/16/prolog-is-magic/
Re: Teaching our five year old to code by cheating
#5The script you included doesn't actually work, as you're comparing a string with an integer. It will always return false.
Re: Teaching our five year old to code by cheating
#6if int(guess) == int(lulu + boonie): There ... I fixed it.
Yeah, question 1 it gave me was "What is 0+1?" and then it told me that 1 was the right answer, when that's what I typed. A few questions later and I thought "hmmm... something is up here"
Re: Teaching our five year old to code by cheating
#7Kids should be taught programming when they express an interest, and when their brain is ready which in my non-facts based opinion is 11-13 years old.
Trying to make kids learn programming without them being interested is about the parent wanting their children to be like them.
Re: Teaching our five year old to code by cheating
#8The script you included doesn't actually work, as you're comparing a string with an integer. It will always return false.
Huh, did the kid understand that 3 != "3"? I'd be stumped how to explain that...
Re: Teaching our five year old to code by cheating
#9Kids should be taught programming when they express an interest, and when their brain is ready which in my non-facts based opinion is 11-13 years old. Trying to make kids learn programming without them being interested is about the parent wanting their children to be like them.
I agree with this, it's like forcing a kid to play sports if they just wanna read books etc.
Re: Teaching our five year old to code by cheating
#10Kids should be taught programming when they express an interest, and when their brain is ready which in my non-facts based opinion is 11-13 years old. Trying to make kids learn programming without them being interested is about the parent wanting their children to be like them.
Unless we get an AGI to do it for us, there's a part of me that thinks that programming will eventually be as baseline as literacy.
If I'm right, OP is either ahead of the curve or jumping the gun, depending on your perspective. :)