At the age of 12, this is a wonderful time when we run around the backyard, play games and learn the basics at school. Here you can see a boy who can be said to be an inspiration for each of us. See for yourself what he is capable of
How old were you when you first wrote your program? What was it like?
Was there any IT club at your school? Was it useful?
If you didn't have one, would you go to one if he was? Why?
How old were you when you first wrote your program? What was it like?
Was there any IT club at your school? Was it useful?
If you didn't have one, would you go to one if he was? Why?
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Currently, there are more such possibilities to enroll in courses for children learning programming. My nephew has been in contact with programming and databases since kindergarten. He is able to write loops and conditional conditions.
There was something like IT club in my middle school but… people coming there weren’t interested in IT but they wanted to play Tibia on school computers so in my opinion it wasn’t useful.
I’d like to have better IT club in my middle school but it’s to late now. I had opportunity to lead IT club in small educational center and I was teaching boys programming in java. They were also about 12 years old.
2. Unfortunately, there were no IT clubs in my school, so I taught everything by myself. I think at school age they could be very helpful.
3. Yes of course. I used to lack some kind of plan for studying, systematizing knowledge. I also wanted to have different tasks, which the teachers then checked and gave advice.
I wrote my first program when I was 12 years old. It was created using the LOGO programming language. It was fun for me, but unfortunately, at this time, there was no continuation for it.
Was there any IT club at your school? Was it useful?
Sadly, we haven't had any IT club.
If you didn't have one, would you go to one if he was? Why?
I would love to have such a club because at this time it would be possible for me to expand my knowledge about programming and meet people with the same interest.
In my opinion, the best thing about programming is that it is comprehensible and possible to master by literally anyone. I have no idea, why so many people are scared of learning it, fearing it will be difficult. It won't.
There was a IT club created by some teacher from outside of our school where we learned how to do simple HTML websites but it lasted just few months because noone was interested in computers that much and my IT teacher from school didn't know that much about computers so he wasn't a viable source of information about that. I think because of him I didn't want to learn something more about computer because I never wanted to be someone like him, someone that noone liked and was just a life looser. Honestly he was really a guy that I didn't want to have anything in common.
I had this IT course for a while and I loved it. I think if there would be more of that I would likely join and want to know other interesting things about computers. It is nice to be a part of a group that shares similar interests. I think I would met a lot interesting people and we would push our interests harder and it might have lead us to something bigger that would change our future. But it's just my thoughts about something that didn't happend so we never know.
Yes, our school had an IT club and the robotics team was active. My classmates were members of this IT club and I was one of its members. We made simple computer programs or shared our computer knowledge with one another.
There was not any IT club in my school.
If there was an IT club I would definitely go to it because I would want to learn new things and would start writing programs much earlier.
No, in my school there was nothing of the kind, there were clubs for acting and language improvement.
I would love to get acquainted with the development of programs even earlier, but I never had an iPhone and I did other things that were not related to programming at all. But I am glad that now I can do it.
It was in primary school, in 2nd or 3rd grade when i wrote my first code in LOGO programning language. It was very simple.
2. Was there any IT club at your school? Was it useful?
There was an IT club in my high school but lessons weren't actually about programming but about using Gimp and Ms Office. I didn't have any programming lessons at school (besides LOGO haha) before coming to PJATK.
3. If you didn't have one, would you go to one if he was? Why?
There was such a club but I wasn't really interested to join it. Gimp and Ms Office havent seemed to be so interesting and I wasn't really interested in IT back then.
No, there wasn’t any IT clubs at my school. In last grade in school I visited private programming course that help me understand algorithms and learn basics of Java. Because of this course it was simpler to studying at first year at university.
Yes, I would like to go to one if he was. In the last 2 years of school I understood that I like programming and that will be my future profession.
My first program is simple CRUD that I made for some subject here at school. And it was painful.
There were IT clubs in my city when I was a child. You could play Ultima Online, CS 1.6 and DoTa there. Nothing connected with programming or IT.
I would love to go to literature club or Project Management courses. I give up programming because it doesn't matter what do you want to do or in what area you could be good as you think. You often just can't go against your nature and it's really important to realize that in time.
There was an IT club in my high school, unfortunately it was led by the math teacher who hadn't enough knowledge concerning programming and that is why classes were not interesting or challenging and additionally it was often used as additional math classes.
In my school there wasn't any IT club and that's a shame. If there would be one I would totally enjoy it. Problem with clubs like that is a fact that there would be problem with finding someone who would be good to run it. If you are good in IT, especially in coding, you would not probably teach in primary school.
I was around 12 years old and it was in school. I wrote simple website, but of course I didn't use any programming language... just HTML and CSS. It's hard to call it "program", but still I was really proud of my work. Some months later I started learning C++. My first program in that language was "99 Bottles of Beer".
"Was there any IT club at your school? Was it useful?"
In school? Unfortunately no. My IT teacher was completely like in programming and I didn't remember any personality which could handle leading that type of club.
"If you didn't have one, would you go to one if he was? Why?" - I'm not sure. In my young age I was pretty lazy. I'm afraid that going to this club may be only flash in the pan.
There were no IT clubs in my school, but it wasn’t necessary too, because I had IT-related classes 6-7 times per week from the 6th grade to 11th grade, so quite a lot :)
I would go to the IT club related to robotics or computer graphics though. But we haven’t had anything like this.
To be honest, I am from smaller town and I was in "classic" school without any additional clubs/interesting extra lessons. Programming was my hobby after school. I liked to spend time on that.
What about last question? I think no. I like to learn alone. When I am in my room I can focus on something. It's better than clubs because you can waste time on talking with other people etc.
I was about 14-15 years old, and that was a game written in old programming language Paskal. It was a text game, where you were able to answer the questions and control the plot.
Was there any IT club at your school? Was it useful?
I didn't have a club in my school, but I have one in my town, in other school, and when I was about 12 years old, I learned basics of Photoshop, Word, PowerPoint and others. Thats was pretty cool, because I didn't have a computer at home, so it was an opportunity to actually learn how to use it.
My first program was a Flash website, a fan site of Club Penguin, a cartoon MMO game which was popular back in the day. It was awful, of course, but I enjoyed every bit of making it and presenting it to my friends. The satisfaction of crafting something other people can use has been a very strong motivation for me ever since.
This might be surprising but I’ve never attended any IT clubs. I didn’t understand their purpose since I was more oriented towards pure, unrestricted creativity and learning something on my own. I also hated IT classes, although it was actually an IT class in my primary school where I first encountered the game I mentioned before (and thus became interested in programming).
Since I started very early, I’ve always been ahead of school material when it comes to my knowledge and skill. So the only way IT classes were useful for me, is that it easily gave me a good mark.
- I was 19 when I wrote my first program it was a simple calculator in C++ without any graphical user interface.
2. Was there any IT club at your school? Was it useful?
- I do not know, maybe there was an IT club at my school but I was too lazy to check it and too shy to ask.
3. If you didn't have one, would you go to one if he was? Why?
- I would not join it because I prefer to work alone. I can set my own goals and achieve them in my own way and when I want. I do not like the idea of coming to school or any other places to do something when you can achieve the same result in your house via Skype.
2. No, at my school wasn't any IT clubs and from the now perspective I think that it was bad. Maybe when I had had a teacher with any knowledge about a programming I would have started think earlier about becoming a programmer.
2. There was no IT clubs or any clubs in my school. Really. So I can't say if it was useful, it was dramatic that we hadn't one.
3. Hmmm... Maybe... I would like to try it once and check if I'm really into it. If yes, I woul still attend and write bots for games, cause many people pay large ammount of money for it. Good money + fun = WELL EARNED MONEY.
No I didn't have any IT clubs in my school whats more in every school I was attending we had a teacher who probably never used computer before classes, there was a plenty situations that we needed to help him when something wen wrong during classes.
On every computing class we were "learning" how to prepare presentation or write letter in MS office package.
I don't think i would go there because I didn't know that programming will become my passion then.
Unforturnetly, IT subject wasn't popular at my school, so I hadn't such opportunity. I was amazed about of potential in programming at that time, so for sure, I would join one if there was any. Usually, clubs gather people who are interested in one or another area, and it's a perfect place to discuss your thought because people similar to you surround you.
the only school with additional informatics classes is pjatk I have never had additional classes before and I would gladly go there if they were, it would help me many things even related to the university,
My first program was written at the university at 2012 in Pascal language. It was simple program, nothing special.
2. Was there any IT club at your school? Was it useful?
No, We didn't have any clubs at the school at all, not talking even about IT club. In Ukraine it's normal.
3. If you didn't have one, would you go to one if he was? Why?
Suppose, if we had one, I think this club would was not interesting for schoolboy, because for teachers to keep up with the times in IT is impossible task.
In my high school there was an IT club, but unfortunately it wasn't useful, because they didn't teach the programming but only Office Package.
I had, but I would go to another IT club because I would like to learn programming and not use an Office Package.
In fact, I have wrote my first program few months before I've signed to PJATK. It was a "game" or rather an app, which looked like a game. User had to type the states (US states) and when he guessed any, the state bounds have been drawn on the screen. The more states he guesses, the more map got filled with states.
Was there any IT club at your school? Was it useful?
Well, as I have started my journey with IT in collage, it is hard to answer this question. At the moment I've joined to PJATK there were no IT clubs whatsoever, that's why I have created one on my second year. However, our Android club is now closed and school is not prone to help me with it.
If you didn't have one, would you go to one if he was? Why?
I guess yes, as I said I made one myself so probably I would participate in another one. If you were asking school like high school, I'd rather not join any IT club as I wasn't interested in computer science back then.
Unfortunately, I have not heard anything about such a club in my school, but if it was there, I would definitely be willing to participate in such a club. Even if he was in primary school.
I would like to attend such a club because at such a young age I’d already have basic knowledge about programming, it's a treasure. Such children can achieve a lot in the next part of their life. I think that if I had a son, I would gladly send him to some programming classes to make life easier and to find a new hobby that earns a lot of money.
There probably was, but I always preferred sport. It's also pretty hopeless when the computer world is brought to you in a very boring way as it was in schools I attended to. I remember I had to write instructions to move turtle. Finally, when bored to death we ended up changing the turtle shape into symbol of the manhood and instructing it to draw shapes that were at least funny.
I wouldn't go even if they paid me. Still happy I chose sport activities.
I born in a small city in Ukraine where you probably can find a few people actually knowing what programming is. So the answer - no. A didn’t have any IT club at my school.
And of course, I’d love to have such an IT club at my school. Why? Because the future in programming and it has already come and children as least from the middle school should know what the programming is.