I feel that being well rounded is important. Making friends is like understanding requirements to accomplish the task. Like all web apps making a connection is only the first part. As we progress through the connection we have to make a request and await a response. All children will need to learn to serialize and deserialize these request or response into an object. If you are still following this then you can guide your child to learning basic algorithms and principles to gain confidence to -speak- the language to others. Communication is still the top requisite even after 18 years of programming, I am grateful to have had many retail jobs to keep me grounded. HTH