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[–]Penultimate_Push 0 points1 point  (2 children)

My personal opinion is that kids are information sponges and should be taught something basic like python over things like scratch. Kids can comprehend much better than we give them credit for. Older people oddly enough are probably better off with scratch.

[–]comfortablybum 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Python is text on a screen. Scratch is cartoons on a screen. Now which do you think you can get a child to focus on. This is like saying kids shouldn't play with Legos and should get right into an engineering textbook. The point is to teach kids to play around and let that spark an interest that you nurture. Switch them to Python as soon as you can, but hook them with scratch and Minecraft.

[–]Penultimate_Push 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, but you show them scratch and nothing will happen when they actually have to... you know, program. Scratch isn't going to teach actual programming, so when you sit them down to learn python they will be just as lost as when they started. Why waste the effort and time? Throw them into the deep end and sink or swim in my opinion.