Originally Posted by ElizabethN
Remember getting a magazine that had a program in it and typing the whole thing in? Then debugging it because you never typed it perfectly?
When our eldest son was 8 or so we gave him unfettered access to a PC without an Internet connection. He did type in programs from books and try to run them. Lots of books on programming are still being published, but programming magazines are dying out. Their successors may be sites like Hacker News that link to programming blogs.