{"id":181,"date":"2018-02-01T18:05:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T18:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecodehub.ie\/news\/?p=181"},"modified":"2020-11-10T08:28:44","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T08:28:44","slug":"80s-kids-started-coding-earlier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecodehub.ie\/news\/2018\/02\/01\/80s-kids-started-coding-earlier\/","title":{"rendered":"80s Kids Started Coding Earlier than Millenials?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/research.hackerrank.com\/developer-skills\/2018\/\">HackerRank&#8217;s 2018 Developer Skills Report,<\/a>\u00a0kids who grew up when computers first became <em>home<\/em> computers learned to code at an earlier age than kids today.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_190\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-190\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theantiroom.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/logo_turtle.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"190\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thecodehub.ie\/news\/2018\/02\/01\/80s-kids-started-coding-earlier\/logo_turtle\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thecodehub.ie\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/logo_turtle.jpg?fit=509%2C350&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"509,350\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"logo_turtle\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Image from https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/user_ed\/2015\/01\/26\/small-basic-the-history-of-the-logo-turtle\/&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Image from https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/user_ed\/2015\/01\/26\/small-basic-the-history-of-the-logo-turtle\/&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thecodehub.ie\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/logo_turtle.jpg?fit=509%2C350&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-190\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thecodehub.ie\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/logo_turtle.jpg?resize=300%2C206&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thecodehub.ie\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/logo_turtle.jpg?resize=300%2C206&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thecodehub.ie\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/logo_turtle.jpg?w=509&amp;ssl=1 509w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-190\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Logo in action. Image from https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/user_ed\/2015\/01\/26\/small-basic-the-history-of-the-logo-turtle\/<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I credit a lot of my success as a computer software engineer to a program called Project Expand, run in Massachusetts in the 80s. We were exposed to a lot of things we&#8217;d call STEM or STEAM today (for Science, Technology, Arts, and Math), including the LOGO and BASIC computer programming languages.<br \/>\nWith LOGO you drove a little triangle around the screen with a relatively small number of commands. It made programming accessible, geometry tangible.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>BASIC was similarly terse, but let you run wild pretty quickly:<\/p>\n<pre>10 PRINT \"What is your name?\"\n20 INPUT \"... \", name$\n30 PRINT\n40 PRINT \"hello, \"; name$; \", I am your Apple IIe, nice to meet you.\"\n60 END<\/pre>\n<p>I loved the fact that, with a small set of instructions, you could see the results of your programming efforts, as crude and unsophisticated as they might be, immediately. We were shown these tools not as something you could make a career out of, but simply in the course of our education, an open-ended question to which we applied our own imaginations.<\/p>\n<p>It was something I fell back on later in life when I was figuring out what I wanted to do: Oh\u00a0<em>yeah<\/em>, I remember how this works, we can tell these things what we want them to do&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2>The Jump to Kids Coding Today<\/h2>\n<p>When I wanted to teach kids the fundamentals of computer programming I thought the best place to start was with the tried and true fundamentals of my youth. This is why I use either LOGO (with <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/xlogo-o-matic-9000\/id1208569700?mt=12\">XLogo-O-Matic 9000 for the Mac<\/a>) or the <a href=\"https:\/\/mhanlon.trinket.io\/intro-to-programming#\/logo-in-python\/simple-square\">Python version of Logo programming with turtle graphics<\/a>\u00a0or <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mhanlon\/Fundamentals-of-Programming-Playground\">my new Swift Playground where you can run Logo-like commands<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_193\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-193\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thecodehub.ie\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/turtle1-1.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"193\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thecodehub.ie\/news\/2018\/02\/01\/80s-kids-started-coding-earlier\/turtle1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thecodehub.ie\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/turtle1-1.png?fit=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1536,1152\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Turtle Graphics on the iPad\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Turtle Graphics on the iPad&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Turtle Graphics on the iPad&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thecodehub.ie\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/turtle1-1.png?fit=840%2C630&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-193\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thecodehub.ie\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/turtle1-1.png?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Turtle Graphics on the iPad\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thecodehub.ie\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/turtle1-1.png?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thecodehub.ie\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/turtle1-1.png?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thecodehub.ie\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/turtle1-1.png?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thecodehub.ie\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/turtle1-1.png?resize=1200%2C900&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thecodehub.ie\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/turtle1-1.png?w=1536&amp;ssl=1 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-193\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Turtle Graphics on the iPad<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The goal is to give kids (and adults) a couple simple commands and a canvas on which they can draw and go nuts.<\/p>\n<p>Some kids wind up spending ages on making their vision come to life, others find <a href=\"https:\/\/mhanlon.trinket.io\/intro-to-programming#\/week-three\/06-interacting-py\">text-based exploration more interesting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We hope to inspire a certain curiosity in the new generation the same way LOGO and BASIC did for our earlier generation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecodehub.ie\/news\/contact\/\">Drop us a line<\/a>\u00a0and we can get your kid(s) introduced to a new creative tool and see what they can do with it!<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/dd\/2018\/01\/23\/report-80s-kids-started-programming-at-an-earlier-age-than-todays-millennials\/\">The Next Web<\/a> (&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/dd\/2018\/01\/23\/report-80s-kids-started-programming-at-an-earlier-age-than-todays-millennials\/\">Report: 80\u2019s kids started programming at an earlier age than today\u2019s millennials<\/a>&#8220;) for the pointer to the report.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to HackerRank&#8217;s 2018 Developer Skills Report,\u00a0kids who grew up when computers first became home computers learned to code at an earlier age than kids today. 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We were exposed to a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecodehub.ie\/news\/2018\/02\/01\/80s-kids-started-coding-earlier\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;80s Kids Started Coding Earlier than 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