MBlume comments on Being a teacher - Less Wrong

51 Post author: Swimmer963 14 March 2011 08:03PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 March 2011 12:42:06AM 8 points [-]

Learned to program at five. If someone has the programming gear, five is a perfectly good time to teach them to program. Just show them some Python code (I was reading BASIC, bleah) and see if they can deduce the rules and try writing their own. If someone is meant to be a programmer then a programmer they shall be.

Comment author: MBlume 16 March 2011 05:50:19PM 0 points [-]

You mention reading BASIC -- did you by any chance have those math textbooks with BASIC programs printed in the appendices?