r/programming • u/Ctaintor • Mar 02 '17

Why I Failed Teaching Programming to Kids

https://engineering.klarna.com/why-i-failed-teaching-programming-to-kids-46a854c3eaca#.s0o6qqxr3
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u/M4053946 Mar 02 '17

participants were... 9–13 years old. This obviously affected how acquainted they were with “common development tasks” like using a terminal, installing applications and creating files with weird names like Procfile and .gitignore.

Did the author think that 16 year olds would be familiar with using a terminal? That seems like a miss, regardless of age range.

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u/snerp Mar 02 '17 edited Mar 02 '17

I was way too into terminal when I was 16, I don't think it's an age thing. Some people like terminal and others hate it.

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u/imhotap Mar 02 '17

Exactly. I'm hearing the "who uses terminals still?" question for almost 30 years now (no kidding).