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If you think that only professional developers will need to be able to write code in life, you are deeply mistaken. Teaching children to code offers them a whole range of impressive opportunities and develops qualities that absolutely every adult needs. For example...
Ability to solve complex problems
We're not talking about math right now, although young coders have a major advantage in this area over their less savvy peers. But in a broader sense, programming can also be taught how to approach problems correctly: understand the goal, identify the necessary steps, find the right tools, create a program and make it work. In the future, these principles will help children cope with any difficulties.
Logic, analysis, intuition
As a result, acquaintance with the basics of programming triggers many processes in children's heads that are responsible for reasoning and planning, finding the causes of surrounding phenomena and predicting their consequences. As the child's horizons expand, intuitive abilities increase, since intuition is nothing more than unconscious knowledge.
Creative skills
The idea of programming as something boring and boring is as far from the truth as you can imagine. Developers must constantly look for the best ways to achieve their goals and respond to the challenges that arise along the way. Good code is like an interesting book, and although only understanding people can appreciate its elegance, it doesn't lose its qualities. That is why programming courses for children differ little from creative sections or chess classes — teachers primarily teach students to invent interesting methods for solving problems. And then the students get creative, and they come up with their own ideas about what they want and how to do it.
Overall brain development
We were all told when we were kids: “Read books, you'll be smart.” Few of these educators have bothered to explain how this is related. The fact is that intellectual activity can really improve brain function. The only “but” is how installed scientists, this activity should be aimed at studying something. When a child reads a book, his imagination and memory work. The program code is an even more powerful trainer that speeds up and modifies many parts of the brain.
In another study, scientists studied the brains of programmers who worked on code. MRI analysis showed that this process dramatically increases the activity of areas responsible for attention, language and working memory. It is worth noting that even when developers were engaged in operations related to cycles, calculations and other algorithmic functions, the “mathematical” parts of the brain remained calm. This proves that programming is more of a creative task than just working with numbers.
Research on programming for children
These days, programming courses are introduced into lower grades, and coding skills are called mandatory skill modern man. This was preceded by decades of research that proved that programming for children is one of the best ways to improve mental abilities, even if this skill is not used professionally later.
In 1991, scientists found outthat students with development experience score 16 percentage points more when testing cognitive abilities.In 1999, researchers installed a stable link between active intellectual activity and high cognitive abilities.
In 2009, these findings gained Another suggestion, after which experts suggested that “people who engage in brain-stimulating activities may reduce the likelihood [and even delay the onset] of Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia in later years.”
Finally, we should not forget about the most important argument: programming skills open up a huge number of career opportunities for a person. The IT market continues to run out of staff, so by enrolling your child in programming courses now, you are laying the foundation for their successful life for years to come.
