31 July 2003

Approximate ages of various of my friends when they wrote their first code (not counting copying from books):

Summary of our IRC conversation on the subject:

<graydon> Nat: do you think today's kids -- with their massive overexposure to computers, but with crappy programming environments -- will learn to code earlier or later?
<Nat> graydon: html + css + javascript is first now
<Nat> but at 4 or 5 you don't have shit to publish
<Nat> you want to make the computer do neat things
<graydon> maybe a very popular MMORPG client with an embedded scripting system. in-game programming is a good hook, like MUDs.
<Nat> good call y0
<shaver> yeah
<boc_yyz> i would have started earlier if leisure suit larry had some sort of programmable element to it