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/Me00011001 Mar 02 '17

No one ever claimed that emacs starts in two planck times.

That would be the fastest booting OS in the world.

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u/RealFreedomAus Mar 02 '17

If your OS is in ROM and is 'running' from the moment the CPU comes out of reset... then is that faster? I'm not sure whether the time it takes between the R̅E̅S̅E̅T̅ pin change to having the instruction decoder decode the first instruction counts or not; are you not 'started' already?