I ♥ GitHub; I ♥ the shiny Open Source goodness of their shared code repository versioningness, I ♥ the commercial option for private repositories, I ♥ the website, I ♥ how easy it is to keep your oft-used projects local and up-to-date, and I ♥ the command line simplicity of Git.
And I ♥ it that they’re hosting the first US CoderDojo for kids, aged 7-18. The CoderDojo concept has apparently been spreading across Ireland teaching web dev programming (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, IOS etc).
As they say, “Kids are the future. Teach ’em to code.”. Start your own Dojo or volunteer now. Michael Gove would be proud.
And spread the word.










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Please God no; teach them anything you like - thinking rationally, the uses and misuses of data, what data is and what it's not - but leave the mental disfigurement of programming until much, much later.
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD12xx/EWD1284.html
@Tony Douglas: thank you for an alternative viewpoint, I laughed out loud, almost :) What age would you allow the teaching of programming? 18? 21? And would all programming languages be considered equally harmful?