Comment by austin-cheney
2 days ago
> What would they want to script? What will they achieve? Why would they be interested in this?
That's where you, the parent, are required to spend with the child to help them answer those same questions. The way to answer it is what problems do you have that you wish were solved... then show the kid that.
Problems I want to solve then get my kids to solve them? Sure they can do some
Because they will have no problems a computer can solve with bash scripts
I take it you don't write original software for a living or a hobby. For people who do write their own software they go through this multiple times every day. Knowing what to teach their kids or how to get started isn't a mystery.
Yes I write original software for work.
I'm not going to get my 8 year old to write an jinja2 based integration with vaultwarden for network administration, or some software to pull out multicast routing tables from a global multi-vendor network and display in a useful fashion, which are two things I've worked on today.