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Teaching kids to program

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    #11
    I had an excellent IT course at School. We did pascal and had to make a forms project.

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      #12
      How many kids could be arsed?

      When I learned in the 1970s we didn't have a tenth of the other things to do that kids have nowadays. Especially the interweb.

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        #13
        I think sometimes they have it and sometimes they don't

        SM03 started a computer course when 16 and simply could not get to grips with coding.
        Whether it was my teaching at home and over the internet or you need a certain mind set.

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        Never has a man been heard to say on his death bed that he wishes he'd spent more time in the office.

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          #14
          what happened to Microsofts KPL and that programmable Lego stuff (not sure they were related)
          Coffee's for closers

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            #15
            Originally posted by Doggy Styles View Post
            How many kids could be arsed?

            When I learned in the 1970s we didn't have a tenth of the other things to do that kids have nowadays. Especially the interweb.
            My thoughts exactly, kids have a completely different attention span to back in our day, my lad used to modify all his cars in grand theft auto using a mod program but it was a visual GUI i cannot see him having the patients to sit looking at lines of code

            We had nothing else to do back then but they have far to many other things to be doing now

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              #16
              I think kids are better off spending time communicating with each other than sitting in front of a computer. having said that if they learnt to interact with other human beings I would be out of a job
              Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone

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                #17
                Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
                I think kids are better off spending time communicating with each other than sitting in front of a computer. having said that if they learnt to interact with other human beings I would be out of a job
                Maybe they would be better off learning both?

                For someone who abhors thinking in binary you sure do a lot of it.
                While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'

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                  #18
                  I think this looks fun:
                  Small Basic - Development for Beginners - MSDN

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by doodab View Post
                    Maybe they would be better off learning both?

                    For someone who abhors thinking in binary you sure do a lot of it.
                    I would imagine that your idea of communication is conducted over the internet
                    Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone

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                      #20
                      Originally posted by Scrag Meister View Post
                      you need a certain mind set
                      Yep, you sure do,
                      Coding Horror: Software Developers and Asperger's Syndrome

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