Name: Anonymous 2013-07-16 1:08
(21:52:36) <Zhivago> Personally, I recommend not being a programmer, but instead using programming ask a skill.
(21:52:44) <Zhivago> s/ask/as/
(21:53:20) <retran> i should force my daughter to learn programming for that reason
(21:53:41) <retran> forget piano lessons
(21:55:31) <Zhivago> For which reason?
(21:56:37) <Zhivago> I think that the reasons for getting piano lessons and learning programming as a child should be similar.
(21:57:02) <Zhivago> It gives an opportunity to expose and acquire talent and taste.
(21:58:40) <igli> "the internalization of many skills and abilities" is very true, as is the bit about the time and practice to make weird ways of thinking normal, unless you're already mildly autistic in which case it's communicating with downstream.
(22:00:19) <Zhivago> I do not think that autists have an advantage with learning how to program, unless it is due to fewer competing distractions.DISCUSS!