my elder daughter is really into maths and techy stuff as I was when I was her age (7)
when I was her age I was already playing with computers, which were basically harmless as the internet didn’t exist for home use
I really want to encourage her. And like me, she gets bored with instruction and supervision and will likely learn a lot (and have a lot of fun) just sandboxing. But she is too young to be allowed access to the internet unsupervised.
What’s a good option for safe independent computer farting around for a seven year old? Raspberry Pi? I’m out of touch these days
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‘These days’
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yes, these days
I’m middle aged m88, sorry if that’s a surprise to u
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#2 is well into it. He has the raspberry pi and is a whizz at coding (python i think, he has already made a tetris and a pong and stuff).
The pi does need to be internet connected because there is a lot of stuff you download to it and you tube is stuffed full of the tutorials (but he watched them on phone/ipad).
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Doesnt most home internet ban u from looking at wrongun sites anyway unless you write to suella braverman with a dr's opinion saying you have a rare condition which requires access to hunglikeadonkey dot gonzo?
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Scratch is good for that age
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Have you got an old cassette player too?
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There is a good course on Coursera that is making games in python.
It's done in the browser so it's not really programming but it's good for learning the concepts. It's Rice university.
Raspberry Pi is a nice thing to use as well. I have used raspberry pis and there are several raspberry pis sat in use still as far as I know. Raspberry pis are lovely pieces of kit. They're no joke. They're cheap.
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Perchance.org is a great site. Miss CJ spent over a year creating a role play game through coding which got about 150k visitors and was immensely complicated. Good, safe introduction where she can also share her creations with friends.
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By the way if you get your kid into this she is going to end up having to do really annoying shit for work.
'Hey Muggo we have an outdated PLM system that is pre DOS. We need all our CAD models and other engineering data moved into the industry standard. Can you do it?
'For fooks sake'
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For safe computing for your kids, I'd strongly advise against letting them have access to any hardware you've ever used.
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Heh
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Laz I ve messaged you some details of resources for this
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of course I have an old cassette player
why the fvck would I not?
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Minecraft!
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presumably in software though Mugen, clients, when they set you tiresome or difficult technical tasks, are reasonably and understanding about time frames?
I’m gonna be getting myself into deep, deep systems level programming. I’ll probably invent a new better version of Linux
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That particular one was working in a company. I wasn't a consultant then.
What I was trying to point out is that if you are a good programmer and that becomes known you get dragged into lots of different projects.
You seem to have a weird obsession with 'deep' programming. What do you mean by that exactly?
If you want to go hard Laz. Functional programming. When you are an expert in lambda calculus then you are a true Functional Poet.
Like me.
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Haha.
It's funny to see this thread getting so many thumbs down.
Lawyers do tend to hate maths and words like 'calculus'
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scratch junior app on tablet - give it a go
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deep means deep sun
programming the stuff that runs the stuff that runs the stuff that runs the stuff
talkin’ to the machine
crackin’ the kernel
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calculus isn’t very difficult
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Laz sun electricity runs the stuff that runs the stuff.
Fvcking Darth Sidius over here wants to fire electricity directly at computers.
Laz sun - build your own lisp in C. I sent you it before. You will have to build an interpreter which is the precursor to a compiler. After that....you maybe ready to be a real programmer like me.
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