Sonlight's 12 Days of Christmas Day 9: Homeschool Programming

I was surprised recently to realize that somewhere around 90% of personal computers run Microsoft. Among my friend group, I can't think of any who use anything other than Apple, so that number shocked me.

Then I was surprised again to run across this snippet of a conversation in a book, of all things, about biology. Russell Kirsch, inventor of the world's first internally programmable computer, said this to a young man in a coffee shop about Apple:

They're trying to get everyone to use iPads and when people use iPads they end up just using technology to consume things instead of making things. With a computer you can make things. You can code, you can make things and create things that have never before existed and do things that have never been done before.

As a non-techie, I had never really considered the true creativity computer technology represents.

If you would like your children to start to learn coding, Sonlight offers several excellent options.