Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 21:29:37 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Rob <europax@home.com> Cc: "freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How do you get kids interested in computers- other than playing games? Message-ID: <200103130329.f2D3Tbe08350@grumpy.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Rob <europax@home.com> of "Mon, 12 Mar 2001 15:57:31 PST." <3AAD626B.CC372925@home.com>
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Rob writes: > 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. Put MacOS X on it two weeks from now. It should have a pretty enough interface to keep him amused. And a solid foundation underneath. My brother started his kids early. They could type before they could talk. About 8 years old now and still not programming. But for the last couple of years they have been "writing books." They write the darndest things which almost make sense. Much like in the moments before waking when dreams almost make sense. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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