Comment by AndrewKemendo

Father of three here (ages 11-15)

I teach them the following:

1. Goal determination - what do you want to do?

2. Context mapping - What is the environment and action space we’re operating in?

3. Problem decomposition - Given The previous how can I chunk the overall space of action into measurable and manageable parts to solve

4. Tool selection - what effector systems can I access and can they solve the subproblems?

5. Structured solution exploration - Now that I know my goal, context, problem heirarchy and tools, how do I create experimental system to progressively solve each subproblem and the intersection between them

Then it’s just running that until you have a solution

This transcends “coding” to more important thing which is holistic alignment of goal (direction) and action capabilities (magnitude) that results in a measured action vector which is discrete and bounded.