Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
Starting with the number one reason why your kid should learn to code is that it develops the critical thinking ability in the kid. This critical thinking further helps to develop problem-solving ability. The ability to solve problems is a very important life skill. Nowadays youth is lost as they are not able to solve the problem but they are dependent on others.
So if you don’t want your kid to be a part of lost youth, you need to encourage him/her to learn to code. Now the thing you don’t have to push them to learn it as a subject or a school curriculum but you have to encourage them to take it as a hobby.
See, when you do programming, you encounter 100s of problems every day, and to solve them, you need to break into parts, understand them and develop the solution. This once integrated with the mind of a kid, that kid will use it in his/her everyday life.
Opportunity to Generate Income
The second reason why your kid should learn to code is that there is a huge opportunity to generate income. Now almost every business sector is somehow dependent on coders and programmers. From developing small modules like chatbots to developing business analytics models. From developing websites to apps, everywhere a coder/programmer is required.
Once your kids have learned how to code and now is adult enough to understand the business sector, they can build their own business and guess what they don’t need to invest anything on the development part. They can do it on their own.
Now day’s business houses are hiring programmers or coders to develop the systems to automate the work and this is a big opportunity. Day by day AI is growing and the first step of AI is automating the work so that human effort can be reduced. In the future, only AI-related jobs will be available. This is what you as a parent need to understand.
Coding and programming will help your kid to do smart work rather than hard work.
Programming is the Language of Future
Now the most important part of the reason is coding is the language of the future and by future, we are not talking about 30-40 years down the line but 5-10 years. Now the Indian Education Reform has included programming from class 6th. So you can understand how much coding is important.
Coding also helps you to understand the data. Let’s say you pick up the newspaper and read the news. You know how to read but will you be able to understand the news if you don’t have any clue about the context of the news. In the same way, when you search for anything on the internet, you get a lot of raw data. If you know to code then you will be able to take that data and understand it.
So encourage your kid to learn to code. If you are looking for coding or programming classes for your kids, you can sign up for the Summer Programming Camp organized by CS SmartKids.
CS SmartKids is a kids coding program run by CellStrat AI Lab, India’s best AI Lab. CS SmartKids team is dedicated to convert the young kids into computer wizards by helping them learn Python programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning and Deep Learning owed by full-stack product development internship and then continuous AI learning program.