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Show HN: The Unix Pipe Card Game – teach kids basic Unix commands

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Re: Show HN: The Unix Pipe Card Game – teach kids basic Unix commands

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Post by geraldwhen »

blue1 wrote: post #8
jdthedisciple wrote: post #3

Looks nice, though my guess is it would be more appealing to kids if it used more color, a bigger font size and a more "fun" font family like Comic Sans perhaps. Nice work though, would definitely consider this for my own kids.

Please no. Doh’t feed bad typography to kids. (When I was a kid, I had access to good design examples. I hated fonts “for kids”. Also, because the essence of play is simulation, and childish fonts ruin the game)

Comic sans black on white is more readable than most copy produced in modern web products.

Designers love grey on grey. I’ll take comic sans any day.

Re: Show HN: The Unix Pipe Card Game – teach kids basic Unix commands

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Post by pluc »

loonster wrote: post #4

You should add this game to boardgamegeek. They will also host the files for you if you want.

Doesn't seem to be a problem for OP since the files are available on GitHub [1] but they choose to leave downloads up on their domain.

1: https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/tree/master/...

Re: Show HN: The Unix Pipe Card Game – teach kids basic Unix commands

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Post by zasdffaa »

geraldwhen wrote: post #11
blue1 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please no. Doh’t feed bad typography to kids. (When I was a kid, I had access to good design examples. I hated fonts “for kids”. Also, because the essence of play is simulation, and childish fonts ruin the game)

Comic sans black on white is more readable than most copy produced in modern web products. Designers love grey on grey. I’ll take comic sans any day.

Font and font contrast are entirely orthogonal.

Re: Show HN: The Unix Pipe Card Game – teach kids basic Unix commands

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Post by throwaway47292 »

pluc wrote: post #12
loonster wrote: post #4

You should add this game to boardgamegeek. They will also host the files for you if you want.

Doesn't seem to be a problem for OP since the files are available on GitHub [1] but they choose to leave downloads up on their domain. 1: https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/tree/master/...

I do that so there is no tracking, I want people to be able to download the pdfs without microsoft's knowledge :)

Re: Show HN: The Unix Pipe Card Game – teach kids basic Unix commands

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Post by throwaway47292 »

dlg wrote: post #2

Is the creator thinking of doing another printing? If not can someone recommend a service that will print a high quality card deck given the PDF?

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 drop

Since I printed only 50, I think the price is too high, so I would rather to give them for free than to charge unreasonable price. If you are willing to pay the shipping cost send me an email to b0000@fastmail.com, I still have few left.

Re: Show HN: The Unix Pipe Card Game – teach kids basic Unix commands

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Post by CaptainRefsmat »

My first thought when I saw this was "stocking stuffer". It sounds a little bit pricey for DIY, though. The Python game sounded interesting, but my initial impression was that it would be way too advanced for beginners. Am I missing something?

Re: Show HN: The Unix Pipe Card Game – teach kids basic Unix commands

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Post by layer8 »

blue1 wrote: post #8
jdthedisciple wrote: post #3

Looks nice, though my guess is it would be more appealing to kids if it used more color, a bigger font size and a more "fun" font family like Comic Sans perhaps. Nice work though, would definitely consider this for my own kids.

Please no. Doh’t feed bad typography to kids. (When I was a kid, I had access to good design examples. I hated fonts “for kids”. Also, because the essence of play is simulation, and childish fonts ruin the game)

While I wouldn’t advocate for Comic Sans, monospace isn’t exactly good typography either.
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