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Programming for kids
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this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2023
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I genuinely don't know if scratch is the right choice or a simple text based language would be better, especially for the older kids. Just from my personal experience, I started programming in BASIC at 12 and don't think I would have had as much fun and continued programming if i had used scratch instead.
Well yea, I was 9 when I started programming in Batch, but it is not really suited for every kid. Most kids aren't nerds. Some may have problem reading and formatting code correctly, let alone understanding anything not seen before. Scratch mostly takes care of that.