Estonian school kids learn programming

http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/04/estonia-code-academy/
Estonia is implementing a new education program that will have 100 percent of publicly educated students learning to write code.
ProgreTiiger education will start with students in the first grade, which starts around the age of 7 or 8 for Estonians. The compsci education will continue through a student’s final years of public school...

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I started with BASIC and that didn't keep me from learning functional programming and Lisp. "What you know about computing other people will learn."¹

>>6
Programming is fun. "I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun."¹

1. Alan J Perlis