Yeeeeeeeee! My granddaughter yelled up to me, "Grandpa, I'm programming!" She was doing some kid code game thing. Ten years old. I can hope, can't I? 😁

I started programming when I was 11, and at the time, I felt like I was siloed from the world in the sense that not very many people around me understood what I was learning or why, so I'm glad to see that younger kids are being motivated to learn to code 😊

Programming is the best gift you can give someone. Encourage her forever 😁

Make her stay away from degenerate web programming

I started in 7th grade 😊
(Idk how old I was. Someone else can figure that out.)

@aviophile Aye. Encourage something lower level. like C.

@Root I am ok with using python to get a sense for programming, c/cpp is too low level that clouds general programming knowledge from starters.

@aviophile I kind of agree. I'm okay with people learning something higher level first, so long as they focus their attention on lower level afterwards. Qhy? If you only learn high-level, you will never be a good programmer. It will be nearly impossible for you to write efficient code because you don't know what the computer is actually doing.

You can see the future in her..

Like Yoda would say:

"Patience You Must Have : My Young Padawan"

@Root I agree, we “learned” programming with C but all we did was pushing green play button in IDE, pointers allocation vs was mindfuck and I truly learned those basic concepts after grad.

@aviophile I taught myself assembly two years before I took a C class. Certainly made things like pointers easier to understand. 😅 Structs were amazing! I had to do all of that manually in asm.

Great. Introduce her to Vim already. 😁

@aviophile speak for yourself. There was no green play button in 1984. 😉

@suprano I want to encourage her, not discourage her. 😉

@iAmNaN ahh, you're right. Haha