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Recently I see more and more articles and social media posts surprised about the current youth’s lack of a mental model how computers actually work. I assume this is due to smartphones and tablets not letting them experiment. Laptop hardware is also usually not made to tinker with. OP, I think you’re doing your daughter a great service with building an attitude that computers are just machines that can be learned abo…
Ah, kids these days!
<3 wonderful project. Brings back memories of excitedly writing HTML in my drawing notebook and daydreaming what the pages would look like
Some issues she can improve on: - H1 content is too long, it should be less than 60 characters, use for the rest of secondary content - There should be only exactly 1 H1 per page
I thought about making a similar post, in the true spirit of a “Show HN”, but would have included the “/s”.
7 years old? Don't force kids If you need your kid to be kid. Hand coding HTML is just trash than collecting leaves & beautify the kindergarden book. I've no memory for last 10+ years other than computer and programming. All I've pretty beautiful memory from childhood.
Your feelings are not universal.
7 years old? Don't force kids If you need your kid to be kid. Hand coding HTML is just trash than collecting leaves & beautify the kindergarden book. I've no memory for last 10+ years other than computer and programming. All I've pretty beautiful memory from childhood.
If you are saying this in a negative light, you should really work on changing that. Try finding things local to you that you can participate in.
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Have fun - https://www.hungerforwords.com/
Holy fuck that's incredibly interesting! The dog knows it's own name, composes multi word sentences... that's consciousness and volition on par with humans.
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Totally agree with you. Not a front end dev myself, and I have multiple variations of "how do i center a div" in my search history, haha. With varying degrees of angry expletives added to the query.
Kids these days don’t know how easy they have it with flexbox!
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Kids these days don’t know how easy they have it with flexbox!
Who needs Flexbox's inscrutable 1-dimension language when you can use ASCII diagrams in CSS Grid for clever 2D things easily? CSS Grid Kids are truly spoiled.
Love it! Well done Naya, the information on the page is excellent! By any chance was this made on a tablet? I see it mentions “tablet… make a website”. Perhaps if children grow up having accessing to tablets over computers, making websites on them won’t seem as foreign compared to a computer.
She made it on a macbook using textedit and the finder, but day to day, she tends to use a tablet.