Man teaching programming to his 9-year-old girl

[Chacal]

http://www.bluej.org/mrt/?p=39

Fascinating project.

[Grogyan]

I have a friend who has a very smart daughter, who is also interested in making games/mods, and has apparently done a few.

She must've gotten a grip on it by age 8 or 9.

Best of all my friend tried to get her to write a game with Blender Game Engine, i've had a look at it myself.
With persistence and egarness a young one can make a simple game with it, even a version of 3D pac-man wouldn't take long.

[Tsar Hoikas]

Compelling.

I remember trying to learn to code around that age... It didn't go very well. Then again, I had no teacher other than myself and online references. I did manage to learn PHP as a 12 year old though.

[Aloys]

I remember my father trying to teach me spreadsheets scripting at around 8-9.. and stopping very quickly when he understood I was more interested in using paintbrush.exe than this maths stuff..

[Chacal]

I feel like a kindergarten teacher. An old one.

My first contact with a computer was in 1981, through a DEC LA-36 terminal, when I started programming APL on a IBM 370 mainframe.

It didn't do PHP or Paintbrush. You would have loved APL though. It still exists in a full-GUI version for PC and Mac.

[boblishman]

Don't get me started... ... THIS was my first machine ... just look how much ram it had ...

[andylegate]

My first experience with programing was in High School, back in 1981. The computer lab had a mainframe (sorry, can't remember who made it) that was called Bob, and was loaded up via a reel to reel tape system.

The terminals for us to use were Teletypes. That's right. No CRT monitor, but a typewriter looking thing, with a big roll of yellow paper attatched to it.

This to simply learn BASIC.

Then, in 1983, the lab was upgraded, with Atari's..........talk about being beamed into the futre! Here we were working with computers, and 5 1/4 inch floppies and COLOR on the screen! It was amazing for us. This was right about the time the Commadore 64 was comming out too. heheheh......

[Chacal]

I still have my C64 somewhere. Can't bring myself to throw it out, even though there's a perfectly functional emulator for it on the PC.
Spent so many hours on that thing.