What if your child aspires to something greater than a programmer? Give him or her the best you can and let him own his future.

Let your boy choose his career path, guide him aright from there. Parents shouldn't have to foist their interests on their kids, but could create the enabling environment for those kids to fly their dreams.

torbitalimited:


If you are in Abuja, you can come to Torbita Computer Training School at Infinity Trust House, Area 3, Garki, Abuja.

We also offer online Tutored training for people within and outside Abuja.

I'm not in Abuja unfortunately.

dexla:
I salute your effort for trying to guide in him early in his professional life.
Alot of computer gurus today got introduced to programming at a young age and
anybody telling you he's too young has no IT background.

My first introduction was at 11years old with a Vtech computer and I learnt Basic Programming language (I don't know if they still exist).
By the time I got to the University, Basic Programming had become obsolete and we were learning C programming as a foundation language.
With the background I had in Basic, C was so easy while some of my classmates where still trying to get a hang of it. (If you know one programming laguage, learning other languages would be easy)

Being introduced at at young age will help him align his career and determine early what aspect of IT he wants to focus on or what language he wants to master. I would advise you enrol him in a school, online courses on programming at such a young age isn't encouraging as there are many questions online classes can't answer. There are Bootcamps like Audax, CodeSpark, SPark IT Academy that focus on children, learning with his peers will give him the confidence he needs, and most of these schools provide mentorship programmes that track his progress.

I must also inform you, learning programmng is like learning a new language fom the very basic. If he stops learning too early, he'll forget most of the syntaxes. I would recommend a minimum of 6 months of programming until it becomes a part of him.

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Draslo:
Have you wondered what he wants? I thought we're now past imposing careers on kids.

he his not imposing anything ....knowing how to program doesn't mean he would take programming as a career

Ajibade123:

he his not imposing anything ....knowing how to program doesn't mean he would take programming as a career

I agree. I understand his pov now

chival:


I'm not in Abuja unfortunately.

Heya, but we still have online live training Classes. Anybody can join our online training from anywhere in the world.

Mamaab:
Good day professionals. I have a 9yr old son who I think will fare well in either computer programming, software developer, software & hardware engineer or so.

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No matter what your child will become in the future, he/she needs to be Computer LITERATE.

Crieff:
Very simple OP.

Are you in Lagos? If yes, look for Coding Boot Camps for your child. I don't know your location I would have suggested a very fine one around Gbagada.

Also, get a computer for the house and supervise his use on it.

Yes to Scratch too.

What's the name of the boot camp? I live in Lagos and want to learn how to code. I don't have the discipline to teach myself

Kaveco:



What's the name of the boot camp? I live in Lagos and want to learn how to code. I don't have the discipline to teach myself

Oh sorry! It's a boot camp for children to learn programming.

I advise you to do the following: start learning programming by yourself and show your son what you can do with some basic programming skills. You may create some simple computer game together with your son and ask him about some details like which color the background should be or what the appearance of the characters he likes and so on in order to make involved in this whole process.
I guess that if he sees what you can do with programming, he will also like to try this and build his own computer game. Children usually take their parents for the model, so, be his model!

Mamaab:
Good day professionals. I have a 9yr old son who I think will fare well in either computer programming, software developer, software & hardware engineer or so.

I am just a regular computer user who have zero knowledge on the aforementioned prospects. Pls, someone should tell me where to start from. I am more inclined to the software/hardware prospects

Is his age too small?
Do we have specialised learning centres that I can enrol him?

Thanks in advance

Let me teach your son how to become a professional programmer... Before he clocks 16years old he's gonna be a millionaire.

Just bring him to me, let me teach him work. If E no cash a millionaire before he clocks 16yrs call me a bastard.