[blackeagle]

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[Slarek]

He's not a superkid, he just likes what he does and after huge amount of hours he has became good at it.
And I'd be a lot more impressed if he was a Linux user instead of Apple fanboy.

[Deque]

I love that girl.

[Coder-san]

To be honest I'm not much impressed.
The girl has coded who knows what. There should be a standard for games, what to call one, and what not.

I've seen better young prodigies. Especially hackers who can put a lot of experienced hackers to shame.

[Deque]

To be honest I'm not much impressed.
The girl has coded who knows what. There should be a standard for games, what to call one, and what not.

I've seen better young prodigies. Especially hackers who can put a lot of experienced hackers to shame.

At the age of 7?
I find that hard to believe.

Edit:

Here is another one that fits to the topic:

[blackeagle]

lol guys common not impressive ? when i was at there age maybe i had problems writing my name they write this codes and you say not impressive ?

[Coder-san]

My 4-year-old cousin brother is playing games like The Haunted House since 2. He couldn't even say "game".
He knows who to save and who to kill, when to reload. He couldn't read the folder names or the game menu but he could find the game and start it.

Really, kids learn fast. And if they are given direction it would not be that difficult for them to be one of the mentioned.

But there is an age, after which they'll become regular learners.

[blackeagle]

My 4-year-old cousin brother is playing games like The Haunted House since 2. He couldn't even say "game".
He knows who to save and who to kill, when to reload. He couldn't read the folder names or the game menu but he could find the game and start it.

Really, kids learn fast. And if they are given direction it would not be that difficult for them to be one of the mentioned.

But there is an age, after which they'll become regular learners.

maybe that's true i used to learn faster when i was a kid so i guess ur right

[Deque]

I ran two course for schoolkids, who where 6-8 years old. One was a computer course, the other for a schoolmagazine. It was not unusual that they needed half to one an hour to write two sentences on the computer (i.e. when they found an error in the beginning of the first sentence, they deleted everything and started all over, in addition they are very slow while typing, searching for a key about half a minute). The resulting sentence was still filled with errors.
I only had two older girls who where noticeably faster.

They struggle with it, because they can barely read or write at all at that age. That's why I am impressed with that girl who is able to write code, which needs not only the ability to write and read (that was challenging enough for most kids that age), but also to do that while thinking about the problem to solve. Children who start to learn reading are often unable to recall what they just read, because the reading itself is difficult enough.

A little child playing a game is something different imho. Children are very good im memorizing things. I.e. When I was 3 I sat in the train "reading" out loud my books. I couldn't read at all, I had just memorized the sentences. But that's nothing unusual. Most kids in kindergarten age are better than adults with memory games for the same reason.
Your cousin who knows how to start the game and save the game did nothing else than memorizing the way to do it.
The abstraction you need to solve programming problems is an entire different case and ability that children at that age (<=7) are usually not wired for.

[Coder-san]

@Deque: I admit you're right about the typing. Most kids don't want to read and write long texts. At most 4-5 year olds are just passionate over spelling words.