How the kids stole the show: Young Coders tutorial at PyCon
“I don't think you'd ever see that kind of experimentation in a classroom full of adults, who would more likely do everything in their power not to break their computers,”...I really think, more than anything, this is why we should be teaching kids to code and so on in school. Most of the good coders I know have been doing it from a young age, and I think a lot of it comes from the fearlessness of youth.Personally, I know I owe a lot to this. I "broke" the computer more times than I can count, by just experimenting, playing and otherwise doing stuff that I now know to be "reckless". There was a guy in the IT department and my dad's work who gave me an absurd number of hours of free tech support and teaching, because I couldn't figure out how to undo some of those mistakes, and would patiently walk me through getting things put right before my folks came home from work. (In retrospect, I don't think they would have minded, but I didn't want to get in trouble for breaking the expensive toy!)