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Can kids under 10 be possibly taught coding, without even mentioning the word syntax to them ??🤔🤔🤔 (thebrainbin.org)

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Can kids under 10 be possibly taught coding, without even mentioning the word syntax to them ??🤔🤔🤔

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[–] mech@feddit.org 10 points 3 days ago

Yes. In school we had a course where you programmed a virtual robot navigating through a maze.
The commands were simply "go forward", "turn left", etc.
Then they introduced basic programming principles one by one.
Simple loops, conditions, outputting messages, etc.
The following year, they switched us to programming in Pascal and it was basically the same thing, only now we had to learn some simple syntax.