Should I Teach My Son Programming? What approaches should I take? [closed]

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Published on 2010-03-10T22:02:07Z Indexed on 2010/05/01 0:07 UTC
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I was wondering if it's a good idea to teach object oriented programming to my son? I was never really good at math as a kid, but I think since I've started programming it's given me a greater ability to understand math by being better able to visualise relationships between abstract models. I thought it might give him a better advantage in learning & applying logical & mathematical concepts throughout his life if he was able to take advantage of the tools available to programmers.

what would be the best programming fields, techniques and/or concepts? What approach should I take? what concepts should I avoid? what fields of mathematics would he find this benfits him most? He's only 2 now so it wouldn't be for another few years before I do this, (and even at that, only from a very high level point of view).

I thought I'd put it to the programming community and see what you guys thought?

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What are some recommended programming resources for pre-teens?

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