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throwaway47292
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About throwaway47292
if you have good ideas on programming pedagogy shoot me an email at programmingtime@fastmail.com
thanks!
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I made this game so I can teach my daughter C, particularly thinking about how things exist in memory, while traveling and having dinner or waiting for the bus. Just grabbing a few…
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Oh! Because of the slow and costly printing process I read it like 50 times, and yet.. Its amazing how your brain just sees what it wants to see.
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I really enjoy finding new ways to introduce her into how computers think, in the same time, I have to constantly level up my game, as I am competing with tiktok, instagram, youtub…
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Ah! I didnt mean to show it off, just my desk is a mess.. Yea its a cyberdeck I am building with hardwired Atreus directly connected to pi zero gpios and using libuinput to make a …
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I am halfway done with the C deck, as we are switching to C soon, and I will setup a kickstarter after, should be done around December. I want her to know why x[3] and 3[x] are the…
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Comment #33226242
You can just generate the tiffs yourself with different colors, border_color is the color of the border and the comments https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/blob/8d14a2…
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Comment #33226229
Now with everything on the cloud, kids are growing more and more disconnected with their computers, instead of the kid making the computer do something, they do some magic sequence…
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Comment #33224488
Sorry, I copied ND and NC by mistake, I just pushed https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/commit/8d14a... to move to CC-BY-4.0 (removing NC and NC)
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Comment #33223744
This is amazing! Thanks for sharing, I will try it with my daughter.
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Comment #33223739
I print with some professional card printing companies, the pricing goes something like 10 decks, 500$, 50 decks 800$, 100 decks 1200$, and 300 decks 1500$ and then it continues to…
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Comment #33223690
I do that so there is no tracking, I want people to be able to download the pdfs without microsoft's knowledge :)
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Comment #31059056
I think most kids can learn basic programming and have different attitude towards software. Programs are going to determine their lives, from the tiktok feed algorithm to surveilla…
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thanks! fixed
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This is true! I am still working on the games, but since it took me 2 months to make the programs, I decided to print anyway. https://punkx.org/4917/guide.html#game here I have jus…
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This is the second game me and my daughter made, first one was https://punkjazz.org/programming-time/ and we really enjoy them both. The idea is for a parent and a kid to just pick…
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4-5 days in queue is infeasible with modern amount of spam, especially generative spam (e.g. someone gets verisign's .com zone and sends one email to every john@domain) My gut feel…
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hmm the hardest one is to reduce stress (which now when we have a disaster bingo is really hard to do) which will directly impact your weight, therapy also helped me. a weird i hav…