[danoc]

> I would have them build anything and everything with the caveat that no matter how good they were (or weren't) the quality of their code would suck looking back in 5 years

Great point!

I had a similar experience growing up, but I think a lot of people that want to learn quickly give up.

What do you think we can do to keep people excited about it? I was talking to a few friends at UMich and they suggested we have them build their own personal websites so they have something tangible they can show their friends.

[j45]

I thought about it a little, I'd probably not let them program much in the beginning and simply create results that they can keep hacking on through a high level tool.

To that effect, I'd probably recommend at this time appery.io .. to make mobile web based apps, which also bring in data.

Appery introduces enough about building apps, as well as the data and logic flow in a browser that people can learn one language (javascript) to see what's possible and branch out from there.

What do you think? Feel free to get in touch.