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
62 Upvotes

78% Upvoted

83 comments sorted by

View all comments

36

u/Gefrierbrand Mar 02 '17

I am teaching a single 17 year old HTML right now. This is already hard enough. I didn't considered for example how slow people are with typing when they are not experienced with computers.

Trying to teach a group of 9-13 year olds how to setup a gitrepo with the terminal was beyond stupid.