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iAmNaN
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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? 😁

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  • 10
    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 😊
  • 10
    Programming is the best gift you can give someone. Encourage her forever 😁
  • 18
    Make her stay away from degenerate web programming
  • 3
    I started in 7th grade 😊
    (Idk how old I was. Someone else can figure that out.)
  • 6
    @aviophile Aye. Encourage something lower level. like C.
  • 4
    @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.
  • 8
    @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.
  • 1
    You can see the future in her..

    Like Yoda would say:

    "Patience You Must Have : My Young Padawan"
  • 1
    @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.
  • 3
    @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.
  • 1
    Great. Introduce her to Vim already. 😁
  • 2
    @aviophile speak for yourself. There was no green play button in 1984. 😉
  • 3
    @suprano I want to encourage her, not discourage her. 😉
  • 1
    @iAmNaN ahh, you're right. Haha
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