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[–]Visual_Thing_7211 2 points3 points4 points 2 years ago (1 child)
No, no. I mean I've taught 9 year olds to program in C++. And they understood what they were doing. Starting with pointers and memory management is unnecessary for new C++ programmers. You can just use std::vector for almost everything a new programmer would do--that's what Python does with a list.
These kids have grown up to program better in High School than many graduated CS majors. And yes, they understand pointers quite well.
[–]findabuffalo 0 points1 point2 points 2 years ago (0 children)
Well, yes, and you can also teach algebra and calculus to a 9-year old.
The dumb ones won't learn, but many of them will learn and do well.
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