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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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Maybe you could run all the decks as a kit on kickstarter? I would love to buy all of them as a set, and I believe a lot of others would as well.

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 same thing. int x[3]; 2[x] = 5; printf("%d %d\n", 2[x], x[2]) A lot of people struggle with x = 5 y = 6 y = x x = 7 print(y) and x = [1,2] y = [3,4] y = x x.append(5) print(y) There is something magical in understanding how the computer us…

Sounds awesome! I’ll pitch buying a bunch of these for work as well. Extremely good idea!

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

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>And I am trying to make it like a 'scavenger hunt' experience for my daughter, I will put special codes in various places in the programs or on the file system with different difficulty, and I can challenge her to find them. This is brilliant. I really admire the lengths you go to so that your kids can be engaged. Sounds like this has the potential to be quite fun and exciting.

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, youtube, netflix.. etc. So I have to come up with new incentives, and more and more interesting projects, e.g. I printed a tshirt with some of her code, or made a huge poster with one of the turtle images she made ( https://github.com/jackdoe/pro…

This brings me back to when I was ~5 and my grandpa built together with me kits for a simple light bulb, an electromagnet, and a simple crystal radio. It wasn't enough to get me consistently interested, but it put "dots" into my mind that I could later "connect" when I was older. The experience was invaluable.
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