[imakesnowflakes]

I am of the opinion that kids should not be taught to program computers for these reasons..

1. Programming can be too much gratifying, almost drug like, and will keep the vulnerable kids in front of the computer whole day long, building stuff. This will help them blow the socks off mom and dad, but will make little real difference in their future.

2. learning to program early does not make really better programmers. But there are skills vital to life and experiences that SHOULD be picked and gone through, when they are still kids. This should not be sacrificed for learning coding.

So I think kids should not start programming until they are past their teens..

Source: My experience as a kid who used to blow their parents socks off by making games and 3d graphics in qbasic and turboc...