I've run into a problem, and I'm not sure how to easily get around it. My youngest daughter (6) wants to be involved in anything I'm doing with her big sister (9). The problem is that my youngest daughter just doesn't have the reading, math, and actually patience to really get started with computer programming. She quickly gets frustrated, and angry, and then threatens the technology.
With the goal of having a more focused time with my older daughter teacher her computer programming concepts, I've toyed with the idea of "teaching" a "class". As much as I would like to, I honestly can't really commit to volunteering at my daughters school right now to teach computer programming, my own job with computer programming doesn't give me the freedom right now to do that, but perhaps I could do something more ad-hoc with my daughters and some of her friends.
I did speak with my older daughters 3rd grade teacher. I had emailed her a link to code.org and asked her to watch the video. Then when I got a chance to speak with her in person, I asked her if the school had any programming courses available. She laughed then said that the school would need computers before they could teach computer programming.
Right now though my own job in computer programming is keeping me really busy and reminding me of this article, which makes it really hard to get motivated to teach programming.
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