{"id":39100,"date":"2013-04-16T14:53:19","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T18:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=39100"},"modified":"2013-04-17T08:54:46","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T12:54:46","slug":"my-reflections-on-four-reasons-why-kids-should-learn-programming-by-odell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2013\/04\/16\/my-reflections-on-four-reasons-why-kids-should-learn-programming-by-odell\/","title":{"rendered":"My reflections on “Four Reasons Why Kids Should Learn Programming” by O’Dell"},"content":{"rendered":"

DSC’s comments on<\/span> “Four Reasons Why Kids Should Learn Programming”<\/strong> <\/a>— from tynker.com by Jolie O’Dell<\/p>\n

.<\/span>I like this blog posting and others have discussed this topic before…but I respectively disagree with one of the assertions: Programming is not<\/em> easy — at least it wasn’t for me.\u00a0 I think that’s true for others, as why else is it so hard to find good programmers and why are they paid so well<\/a>?\u00a0 Most people I know do not think<\/em> like programmers do — it’s a different way of thinking. I’ve tried a couple different languages (albeit at a beginning level!), and while I greatly appreciate what programmers do, I am the first to tell you that I am not a programmer.\u00a0\u00a0 At least within web design and development types of tasks\/careers, people tend to either gravitate towards the front end OR the back end — though there are exceptions to this rule of thumb who can do both types of tasks well.<\/span><\/p>\n

So while I agree that students should learn some type of coding, we need more tools\/services like this that aim to make programming fun, enjoyable, understandable, and relevant.<\/span><\/p>\n

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About<\/strong><\/a>
\nTynker is a new computing platform designed specifically to teach children computational learning and programming skills in a fun and imaginative way. Tynker is inspired by Scratch<\/a> from MIT. It is a completely browser-based implementation written using Open Web standards such as Javascript, HTML5, CSS3 and does not use Flash.
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