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Brant Soler

I'm a fan of introducing concepts as early as absolutely possible. You can break basic logic down into a simple set of instructions and use magnets, compile them to open the fridge. Humans already do it with language structure, it's just a different language. Imagine how your life would be if you could program as fluently as you could speak.

Some of my earliest memories seem to be connected with Reader Rabbit, the first color monitor on an Apple II c as well as "and/or" gates.

As children mature, watch their interests and harness that interest to give them the tools they will need for success: If they like carrots, help them program the biggest darn carrots around! Carrot themed logic problems! Just don't dangle a carrot on a string at the end of a stick, that's not fun.