in reply to Best age to start learning perl

As always, it depends. My answer to the age would be "as soon as the kid shows some interest".

We've discussed similar topics before, please read Teaching Perl to Children, Perl as one's first programming language and try Super Search.

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Re^2: Best age to start learning perl
by tweetiepooh (Hermit) on May 06, 2009 at 10:22 UTC
    The Teaching Perl to Children node covers the use of LOGO, a language developed to teach programming to children. Recommend reading that.
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Re^2: Best age to start learning perl
by Gavin (Archbishop) on May 06, 2009 at 11:51 UTC

    Got to agree with moritz it depends on interest and aptitude more than age.

    As to what languages, not Perl to start with something like LOGO as others have suggested or HTML.

    The visual aspect of both of these programming languages are ideal for children, as they can easily see how simple changes can have such a dramatic effect.

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