<story><title>Robert Morris: All About Programming</title><url>http://paulgraham.com/aap.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>allendoerfer</author><text>&amp;gt; My father tried to interest me in programming somewhat before high school; it didn&amp;#x27;t work, and I didn&amp;#x27;t continue then.&lt;p&gt;I suspect, that it almost never works that way. Learning programming or hacking as a child is all about figuring it out on your own, doing something, what your parents or your teachers can not understand, defining your own identity.&lt;p&gt;That is why I doubt that all the programs in the US, which try to teach children programming, will work. They might teach some concepts, but in the end i fear, that they will hinder the children to aspire a career in the field. I see a bad parallel to beauty contests, were parents try to live their dreams through their children.&lt;p&gt;Of course it is never black and white, but I think you have to be ultra careful with stuff like this. I think naturally interesting, open platforms are a better way to get children to dig deeper. Minecraft is a perfect example.</text></comment>
<story><title>Robert Morris: All About Programming</title><url>http://paulgraham.com/aap.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bcd21</author><text>&amp;quot;Not wanting to look like a loser to the people I most admired, I was pretty late in admitting the obvious about math.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t understand this part, what&amp;#x27;s the obvious thing about math he was late in admitting?
Were the Bell labs people right in his opinion or not?</text></comment>