[Gllug] Light the blue touchpaper...

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gllug-bounces at gllug.org.uk wrote:
> And verily, didst Pete Ryland announce to the hordes:
>> 
>> On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 08:22:10AM -0000, john at sinodun.org.uk wrote:
>>> [snip]
>>>> Perhaps, but wrote-learning times tables hasn't helped me in over
>>>> 15 years.
>>> 
>>> You're deluding yourself - it helps you every day of your life.
>> 
>> You know, you're probably right. 
>> 
>> But I still don't see anything too bad in encouraging kids to learn
>> computing skills as well.
> 
> Ahhh, but they should at least be kept off the computers until a time
> when their more fundamental skills (reading riting and rithmetic) are
> good enough.

I wonder if research has been done on whether we are able to learn 
programming languages more easily when very young, in the same way that we 
are able to learn spoken languages so quicky under the age of seven.
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