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Re: Tell HN: My child's first program

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Post by mkehrt » Tue, Dec 06, 2022, 8:37 PM UTC

tricky wrote: post #21

Hilarious! After a few of those, I taught my son how to open the javascript console and "hack" his favorite cookie clicker. He was so excited to show his friends but the school-provided chromebooks are really locked down. I was disappointed, thinking that would be the end of it, but his whole class has been trying to find ways around the blocks and filters ever since. They've found some clever workarounds and a lot o…

Back in my day you could just rename programs (read: Quake 2) to winword.exe and they would run no problem.

Re: Tell HN: My child's first program

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Post by warinukraine » Tue, Dec 06, 2022, 8:42 PM UTC

shkkmo wrote: post #84

warinukraine wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's a great way to ensure that the only motivation your kids have is external. "What's the point of doing X is no one offered me a phone for it" When I was a kid, I heard that some friends were getting money from parents as a reward for good grades. I always had good grades so I suggested to my mom that I should get money for good grades. She said "No, because then you'll get used to only work hard when I'm…

Now re-contextualize that as if it were an employer/employee relationship. That's actually a pretty messed up lesson to teach a kid about negotiation and self worth.

But it's not an employer/employee relationship.

It teaches you that you should _also_ consider your own long term goals, as opposed to only chasing the someone else's short term goals. I think it's a great lesson to teach a kid about self-worth.

Re: Tell HN: My child's first program

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Post by dieselgate » Tue, Dec 06, 2022, 8:44 PM UTC

ct0 wrote: post #54

rumpope wrote: post #37

My son took a coding class in elementary school (MIT scratch), and he came in one day and told his teacher that his Dad was a "pro programmer" and had helped him. The program was a pigeon farting on a man's head. The teacher asked what Dad had helped with, and he said "he recorded the fart sound".

All programmers have to start somewhere. My first program was an interactive piece of concrete.

Much like the parent's comment, we all need to fart somewhere too

Re: Tell HN: My child's first program

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Post by gigatexal » Tue, Dec 06, 2022, 8:45 PM UTC

Haha you should print it and frame it. Your daughter has a bright future! And a good dad to boot, kudos to you both!

Re: Tell HN: My child's first program

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Post by numlocked » Tue, Dec 06, 2022, 8:53 PM UTC

The thing that got me to learn OO programming (9th grade...probably 1999) was my desire to write a program that contained the line:

> if (ned.isStupid):

and show it to my best friend, Ned, who only knew how to program TI-83 calculators.

Re: Tell HN: My child's first program

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Post by jcpst » Tue, Dec 06, 2022, 9:04 PM UTC

Farts and poop talk all the time.

There was a post in the past where someone talked about “the function game”. You think of what the function does. The other person gives you “input”, and you give them back “output”, and they try to figure out the internals. Great to play anywhere.

There were plenty of fart and poop functions.

Re: Tell HN: My child's first program

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Post by SoftTalker » Tue, Dec 06, 2022, 9:09 PM UTC

bombcar wrote: post #13

d--b wrote: post #10

Show her how to loop through the print statement and she’ll be hooked forever!

I suspect some major portion of computer programmers discovered loops via 10 PRINT "FARTS" 20 GOTO 10

Yep, pretty close to my first program on an original TRS-80.

Re: Tell HN: My child's first program

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Post by n4bz0r » Tue, Dec 06, 2022, 9:11 PM UTC

nonrandomstring wrote: post #58

My girl's favourite saying at the moment is "command not found". That's the thing she reads the most, except on the occasion it does something. Walking around the house saying it gave way to answering back to requests with "command not found daddy". What have I unleashed?

> What have I unleashed?

Command not found.

Re: Tell HN: My child's first program

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Post by dllthomas » Tue, Dec 06, 2022, 9:15 PM UTC

Very cute!

I've been bragging for a bit about my boy's first proof by induction:

"Hey dada, if seven ate nine, and that means seven ate ten... then there aren't any numbers bigger than eight!"

Re: Tell HN: My child's first program

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Post by septune » Tue, Dec 06, 2022, 9:15 PM UTC

Editing a game written in BASIC on Amstrad CPC, swapping original author name with mine. Reaching level 9000 of happiness watching my name at the screen. Then playing with C and mode 13h to simulate a an explosion of pixels using for loops. Damn i was 10 and i’ll remember forever.