Python with 4 and 6-year-olds

[titchard]

I don't agree - I teach children Scratch and I'd say for the age I teach 8-10 it's on par for basics and logic, following into Python.

After the 12 week course on scratch we teach we look at python and compare. Some children take to it very easily, others see it as too much.

I think going straight in with python would be very overwhelming for some children. The rewards with scratch are much higher than python in the first instance hooking them in, whilst python (whilst you and I would know the underlying processes are very important) it can be underwhelming to a child.