in reply to When is it too soon to learn Perl?

(First of all, congratulations of course)

Think I'd buy him a pile of Lego's first. Based on how complex the stuff he builds is, you can see how when he might take to programming. If you want to teach logic, creativity, and who knows how many other skills - Legos are where it's at.

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Re: Re: When is it too soon to learn Perl?
by Sweeper (Pilgrim) on Sep 25, 2001 at 09:48 UTC
    Yes, Lego is great! I know that, I went through this stage 35+ years ago. Also, coloring books are fine. And just playing outdoors, running and biking...

    To learn programming, children have first to learn to read, write and compute. Unless you have a very gifted child, you will have to wait until he is 5 year old or so. Until then, all he will do is use the mouse, or using PLOKTA-mode with the keyboard.

    On the other side, I have seen a friend's son, 6-year old. At school, he was learning to read and write, on his very first year. And at home, he was playing Sid Meyer's Civilization. According to his father, he was rather good at it.