Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 10:40:18 -0800 From: Robert Clark <res03db2@gte.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: <20010313104018.C59350@darkstar.gte.net> In-Reply-To: <3AAD626B.CC372925@home.com>; from europax@home.com on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 03:57:31PM -0800 References: <3AAD626B.CC372925@home.com>
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Find a game company in your area and see if you can arrange to take him for a tour. Getting a chance to meet some game designers or programmers might generate some interest. Or maybe go to a trade show, so he can see how much business is a part of the game scene. I'll be facing this situation someday soon myself. I'm not convinced that the computer field will always be as good a place to be as it is today. As the computer becomes more commonplace, it becomes less exciting. For my father, it was working on cars. For me, it was working on computers. For my children, it may be working on something else. [RC] On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 03:57:31PM -0800, Rob wrote: > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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