My biggest problem with this: this effect does not affect only children. I see students learning to program giving up at the first syntax error; some don't even care about reading compiler messages and trying to fix them.
The first successful code I wrote was the following:
10 input a
20 input b
30 print a+b
I was around 12, without manual or online help and it was trial and error for an entire weekend until I got this right. Very few people I know today used to tech would have such perseverance.
The first successful code I wrote was the following:
10 input a 20 input b 30 print a+b
I was around 12, without manual or online help and it was trial and error for an entire weekend until I got this right. Very few people I know today used to tech would have such perseverance.