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"Reini Urban" <rurban@x-ray.at> wrote:

> more and more ground school pupils do learn programming in a lot of
> civilized countries. and to my knowledge most of them start with pascal
> nowadays. before that it was basic. I started with basic at 10 in
> an ordinary school, no elite. my brother in law runs a ground school with a
> lot of computers, and some of the kids (8-12 years) do like programming.
> (VB, I guess).

Wow, do you train 8-12 year olds to become pilots? <g>

And to make the point clear, no one ever suggested that there's
something militaristic about teaching programming early. I don't
see a clear benefit either, but YMMV.


Dan.