How to Get Young People Into Programming

Patrick: My first program was i made this arm wrestling game where you had to hit the space bar so many times for a second to win an arm wrestling match. A lot of people get into programming given the game development specifically because they view it mistakenly as an extension of playing the game which is a totally different thing Playing a game and building a game are not even remotely the same thing, he says. "That's uh splash of cold water to a lot of people like oh wow this is not as much fun as i thought it would be"

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