Mark Pesce writes about kids solving real world problems.
They create code (programming) but these days it’s not always necessarily about that. I think that makes sense. When I got into coding, it was quite hard to solve real world problems that way or interface with the real world. It’s actually just a reflection of where the hardware and related infrastructure was at – at that time.
Back then kids (or any people) explored computers and programming as a target in itself, not as a tool to be used. Obviously it was still a tool, but the primary use case was clearly different for those explorers (of which I was one).
My 9 year old son fell in love with all the aspects of this program - the simple but still…
Cara, Parent