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by decasteve 4048 days ago
I had the same experience. Typing in BASIC from books/magazines in the mid-1980s and modifying the code after I got it working.

My 7-year-old daughter uses Scratch. My 6-year-old son watches me play code combat and tells me what to do. I explain what I'm doing as I type.