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Should i begin to teach computer programming to a 7 year old boy? How?
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Brainstorm Info
| Creator: | anonymous |
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| Created: | over 3 years ago |
| Activity: | over 3 years ago |
| Users: | 2 |
| Ideas: | 28 |
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| JayHamiltonRoth | 1 |
| JunkieJones | 1 |
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If they want to learn, Lego makes great robotics sets. You program the robot and see the results of your actions immediately.
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Yes. If you wait until he's 8, he'll be teaching you.
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yes if he has the aptitude for that, go for it! awesome idea. but make sure he gets excercize too.
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Dont try teach him how to write hello world in Java ,you will probably turn him into a fisherman or something
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"Drape" is a best as a starter
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First ask him if he want to learn computer programming.
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DarkBasic is supposed to be a relatively easy 3D graphics programming language for kids who like games.
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Teach him to write a program that can hold a basic conversation - that way he is already familiar with the subject. From this you can go on to discussions about the Turing Test etc.
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teach him basic? or maybe buy a really old computer like a bbc and write basic programs on that.
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Idea Nr 13 (don't teacht him ....) makes sense to me (i'm the original poster). The point is taht i'm not trying to convince him to do so, he is the one who loves solving problems. So i thought computer programming could be a good exercise - complementary of course. LOGO seems a very interesting approach.
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don't teach him specifically how to program, but teach him the joys of problem solving, this is why children play, they are learning how to enjoy solving problems. teach him how to think logically, pose to him ethical dilemmas (not 'should we have invaded iraq' but ones that a relavent to his social situation. social skills are key to happiness not programming skills, and isn't happiness what you want for your child? are you trying to make him into a super brain?
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LOGO, sure, or if they still have those programmable lego robots. and teach him to play go. and how to skateboard.
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That might be a bit too young. Computer programming contains abstract concepts and often children of that age are not ready to understand them. Wait until he is 9?
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yes, do it, you will learn a lot with him.
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no - he'll look back on his nerdy childhood and have no friends or fun times to reflect on.
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no
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Get the 7-year old boy interested in computer games, and then he'll want to program
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Buy a book about Beginners Programming
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Start by teaching a simple programming language like LOGO or BASIC
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I would definitely but only if he is interested. Present some fun solutions and see if they take off. Big thing will be to balance computer with exercise.
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why not! you teach him less useful things
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yeah, bike. But only when he'll understand what is pointer in C++..... :)))))
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No, thats a bit young. Go teach him how to ride a bike.