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throwaway47292

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About throwaway47292

trying to teach my daughter how to code, https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids

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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    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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    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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    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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    This is amazing! Thanks for sharing, I will try it with my daughter.

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    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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    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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    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…