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An After-School Program Teaches Teens Java and Python
(spectrum.ieee.org)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
At 14 I could barely get a for loop and if statement working properly. Pascal then VB for me, once a week for 2 years. Only really started programming in uni. Some Asian countries start in primary school at as early as 3 years old. It's as important as languages to them. By 14 they're already doing robotics and writing social media clones.
We are quite far behind in the west.