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by jcdreads 5902 days ago
Had I had this book when I was ten or eleven I think I would have been the happiest ten-or-eleven-year-old in the entire world. Like many technical things, programming is typically either self-taught or taught horribly; this seems like a completely reasonable attempt to do it right.

Especially since every kid these days knows how to look stuff up online, but almost no adults know how to teach them how to program from scratch.