Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 15:57:31 -0800 From: Rob <europax@home.com> To: "freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: How do you get kids interested in computers- other than playing games? Message-ID: <3AAD626B.CC372925@home.com>
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My nephew spends just about every waking moment (other than school) in front of the computer playing games. So this Christmas I thought I'd expand his horizons by buying him a new Imac with SuSE Linux preinstalled by me. I showed him how to use the man pages and other documentation, and tried to explain to him why such a computer might be more interesting than a Windoze box. Well, he was pretty much flabbergasted and confused by this new computer (try accomplishing that with a teenager). He had no idea what to do with it, despite my attempts to explain how cool it might be to do some hacking and programming on it. To that end I showed him Python, and how easy it was to make programs. The computer has just sat unused for weeks. Did I screw up? Are children so used to being spoon-fed information that they no longer have the interest in independent investigation? This is a bright kid who claimed to have an interest in computers. Oh, well thanks for listening to my rant. Maybe it will just take some time. Rob. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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