How Early Should Kids Learn To Code?

the agent man writes "Wired Magazine is exploring how early kids should learn to code. One of the challenges is to find the proper time in schools to teach programming. Are teachers at elementary and middle school levels really able to teach this subject? The article suggests that even very young kids can learn to program and lists a couple of early experiments as well as more established ideas including the Scalable Game Design curriculum. However, the article also suggests that programming may have to come at the cost of Foreign language learning and music."

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Re: logic

[sjames]

Critical thinking is a skill that can be developed or ignored.

Schools prefer to ignore it because a bunch of critical thinkers will be a problem for the politicians and their masters.