Twitter Interaction with YC Founder Paul Graham on learning programming

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Paul was actively updating his programming mentoring experience with his kids throughout the corona lock-down period. Following are few tweets through which he conveyed his perspective.

1. Copy-pasting as a learning method in programming.

At a certain stage it could probably be a useful exercise to modify programs written by other people. But not too early.
— Paul Graham (@paulg) April 6, 2020

2. Teaching programming to 6 year old.

6 sounds a bit young. It might be more frustrating than fun. Why not just build Lego?
— Paul Graham (@paulg) April 5, 2020

3. How did you get children to code?

Writing games from the first line of code. That's what most kids want to write.
— Paul Graham (@paulg) April 5, 2020

4. Imparting Bad habits by inexperienced teaching vs self-learning

That was definitely not the case with me. I taught myself to program, and my code was spaghetti at first. Structured programming, as they then called it, was a real eye-opener when I encountered it in college.
— Paul Graham (@paulg) April 5, 2020

Paul has previously published several essays on learning and education.

If you are interested in exploring further please have a look at following two:
> The leason to unlearn
> Undergraduation

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Twitter Interaction with YC Founder Paul Graham on learning programming

1. Copy-pasting as a learning method in programming.

2. Teaching programming to 6 year old.

3. How did you get children to code?

4. Imparting Bad habits by inexperienced teaching vs self-learning

Paul has previously published several essays on learning and education.

If you are interested in exploring further please have a look at following two:
> The leason to unlearn
> Undergraduation

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Twitter Interaction with YC Founder Paul Graham on learning programming

1. Copy-pasting as a learning method in programming.

2. Teaching programming to 6 year old.

3. How did you get children to code?

4. Imparting Bad habits by inexperienced teaching vs self-learning

Paul has previously published several essays on learning and education.

If you are interested in exploring further please have a look at following two: > The leason to unlearn> Undergraduation

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More posts

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Problem for Cognitive Load Theory

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If you are interested in exploring further please have a look at following two:
> The leason to unlearn
> Undergraduation