Top 10 Reasons to Teach Kids Programming

Here are my top ten reasons.  My wife says I should have added discipline to this list as well as the ability to complete, see something through.  What are yours?    1.  You like to spend time with your kids. 2.  Your kids like to spend time with you. 3.  Kids need trade skills to make them employable.    4.  Math becomes useful, less abstract. 5.  It takes 10+ years to master something.  Start early. 6.  Creating things is very cool. 7.  You will learn things, about yourself,...

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Flash versus Java:

Market: After making two games with Java, I realized that the mass web delivery mechanism for Java is almost  zilch.  This was a classic case of the cart before the horse for me, but I learned a lot programming with Java.  There are few game portals out there that host Java only.  If you have a very popular game, you can get it up on many of the sites, but you are fighting an uphill battle.  Many great games do make it, but usually through less refined channels. Yes, I have some regrets about not starting with ActionScript....

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