Is programming a burden for your child?

Recently, a new trend has emerged in Pristina where you can hear various parents saying they have decided to send their child to a programming course. However, at the moment when you mention programming as a concept, it brings up a strange feeling in us, which is mainly created by various beliefs about programming, and the question arises: is programming a burden for my child?

For most people who do not have IT as their primary profession, programming is a taboo topic and is automatically associated with a high level of complexity, coding, mental burden, and stereotypes like Geek or Nerd. This portrayal of programmers is mainly an image created by movies where you can see a person or hacker programming complex things that at first glance seem like they are not a product of this world. To make things simple, programming is nothing more than a language, just like the Albanian language. If we analyze the Albanian language, we can conclude that our language has its own grammatical rules, the alphabet, and a good number of words that need to be learned to communicate, read, or write.

Similarly, programming is a language through which you give various instructions to the computer. Each programming language has its own basic rules and a set of words that need to be learned. However, what makes programming easy is that the basic rules (grammar in this case) are the same for every programming language. In other words, if you learn these rules, it is not very important which programming language you use, since you can find the words very easily.

In our case, Programming for children is the same as the Alphabet they learn in first grade and the basic rules of mathematics. Children learn the basic logic of programming rules and in this way in the future they will be able to understand any programming language and use it.

To save children from complex programming words, they create their own programs through blocks where they learn concepts and logic, and at the same time are not burdened with technological terms.

The ability to create new things through programming is a power with no limits. A person who is able to create, regardless of their future profession, whether they are a Lawyer, Economist, Salesperson or Doctor, will never be dependent to create personal digital tools and give them an advantage that will distinguish them from any other person who does not have these skills.

Shkolla Digjitale is a certified school in Prishtina, with field experts that enables the learning of programming for children aged 7 – 15. You can register your child from the form below and we will contact you for details.