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Re: Ask HN: Technology/creative books and games for my daughter (7 years)

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Post by bytehowl »

carbonguy wrote: post #70

Perhaps a bit late to the thread here, but I have to put in my $0.02 for "The Way Things Work" (and its sequels): https://www.alibris.com/Way-Things-Work-David-Macaulay/book/... For the unfamiliar - the book is an illustrated guide to how different kinds of mechanisms and designed systems work starting from simple machines, levers, wheel and axle, etc. through to nuclear fission and moving on through computers in the…

These books actually have an interactive software couterpart which came out in the 90s. It might be hard to get a hold of it legally and to run it nowadays, though.

Re: Ask HN: Technology/creative books and games for my daughter (7 years)

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Post by Franzeus »

Unfortunately we have't launched yet, but you may love https://dibulo.com for her next vacation. We focus on an off-screen coloring experience, where you bring your drawings to life.

Currently we are looking for testers and input from parents, so feel free (anyone) to send me a mail to hn@dibulo.com if you don't mind an early version.

Re: Ask HN: Technology/creative books and games for my daughter (7 years)

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Post by lnsru »

mapmap wrote: post #68
nvy wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you. I have a spare debian box that will make a great server, I hope.

It's possible to play local multiplayer without a server. One player can host the game and "open to lan." You will each need your own Minecraft license.

Beware, that automatic LAN discovery doesn’t always work for me. Address and port must be entered manually.

Re: Ask HN: Technology/creative books and games for my daughter (7 years)

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Post by discardable_dan »

RheingoldRiver wrote: post #56

Something I liked to do around that age was make "newspapers" for my parents - no need to buy or download anything (except paper and staples, I guess). Fold some paper in half a couple times, cut it, staple it together, until you have a booklet that's vaguely small-newspaper-shaped. Give it to her and let her imagination run wild writing whatever she feels like, reporting on recent activities at school, at home, coul…

You reinvented the zine. I love it!

Re: Ask HN: Technology/creative books and games for my daughter (7 years)

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Post by vallanceroad »

spiffytech wrote: post #17

There's an old game from the 90s I loved : The Incredible Machine . It's all about devising elaborate Rube Goldberg machines to solve puzzles. The cat knocks a ball into the goldfish bowl, which tips over and fills a bucket that operates a pulley that flips a switch that opens a door. That kind of thing. I remember it being very freeform and exploratory, teaching cause and effect and physics and thinking through comp…

> The Incredible Machine.

Oh wow. I forgot about this game for a long time, until just now.

Our elementary school didn't have enough buses to take everyone home at once. The bus departures were staggered so a few buses would take some kids home and return for the next groups.

You definitely wanted to be in that last group of kids to leave, which meant you got to sit in your classroom and play one of the three games we had on our two Macintosh SE machines: Oregon Trail, Number Munchers, and The Incredible Machine. Hours and hours spent waiting on the bus playing this wonderful game, usually with your friends sitting next to you quietly yelling suggestions at you. Thanks for the reminder!

Re: Ask HN: Technology/creative books and games for my daughter (7 years)

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Post by wiradikusuma »

I feel depressed.

My boys are 8 and 4, and they're both only interested in "hack and slash" computer games, so I bought local co-op like Ninja Turtles and Castle Crashers. I tried giving them "puzzle" games, they're not interested. I tried giving them books (and I also read the books for them), they always "Daddy can we play games".

Still thinking how to make them interested in programming. The Pi I gave them, they use it to play YouTube only.

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