At what age (on average) can you teach programming to children?

Question

Programming

we are talking about web programming - a simplified subset of html css js
what age do you think a child's brain is ready for this level of complexity

Answer 1

From 11 years old it will definitely go (based on several cases).
Most likely it can be earlier, I just don’t know such cases.

Answer 2

The main thing is to interest, not to teach.

Answer 3

We were taught on the example of LOGO from the age of 7. It went tight. Although now I gave my daughter (8 years old) a chance to practice on the algorithm tutorials on code.org - it works fine.
I would give "real" programming from 10-11 years old. And I would choose a language like Ruby, JavaScript or Lua, using games as an example.

Answer 4

From 14 I think

Answer 5

Based on the work on developmental psychology, I can say that you can start from the age of 6-7 years, that is, from the first grade.
It is clear that this will not be pure programming - writing and debugging code in Java. You should start with primitive and visual algorithms, like turtle graphics (LOGO), after which you can carefully show a more rigorous language, such as Pascal.

Answer 6

At the age of 12, I learned that what I have been doing for almost 4 years is called programming. This is despite the fact that 35 years ago there was not only html, but even computers.

Answer 7

We taught python to schoolchildren in grades 5-8. It went well. They understand, they learn to be aware of arrays, functions work well, recursion is apparently not explained very well, it’s clear that we didn’t touch lambdas :)
Now I saw books and toys, here are a couple of articles about these toys for young children.
https://habrahabr.ru/company/mosigra/blog/246795/
https://habrahabr.ru/company/ilkfinkom/blog/251583/
It is necessary to develop logic, thinking and causal relationships from early childhood.

Answer 8

Most likely the question is not age, but the ability to interest children. On my own experience, I was convinced of the effectiveness of the approach of I.R. Dedinsky with the "stupid artist" library, and I believe that a similar method can be applied in your case (thankfully, you can do a lot of color-visual things on html / css / js)