From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jul 4 01:02:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA23439 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 01:02:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA23428 for ; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 01:02:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from obie.softweyr.com (zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id CAA02757; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 02:02:47 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1998 02:02:47 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199807040802.CAA02757@softweyr.com> Subject: Re: Beginning user's OS (was: Here is a really odd question!!!) From: Wes Peters To: kline@tera.com Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: Wes Peters In-Reply-To: <199807040256.TAA05999@athena.tera.com> References: <199807040256.TAA05999@athena.tera.com> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-Mailer: BeatWare Mail-It 1.6 (TrialWare) X-BeOS-Platform: Intel or clone Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id BAA23433 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org My hidden microphone recorded Gary Kline (kline@tera.com) saying: % I'm watching this discussion with considerable interest % since my 32-month-old daughter is very interested in my % computer. So far she's learned virtually all the ASCII % character set, and in another few years I think that % she will be ready for much more. % % What's the consensus on BASIC? Or FORTRAN? xcoral has % a C interpreter that could be broken out... . % % Bright children really do absorb things quickly; just % how quickly has amazed me no end! My daughter is 27 months old next week, and is already a skilled computer user. She has 3 programs on CD-ROM of her own, and gets another one every 2 or 3 months. She can load the CD herself, and has become quite proficient at using the keyboard-driven programs. We bought her first, called "Baby Rom," last fall when she was 18 months old. She learned the entire alphabet in 9 weeks, and the numbers 1-9 in another 2 weeks. Since then, we've added the Fisher-Price Barnyard CD. She can now tell you what kinds of food all of the common barnyard animals eat, how plants grow from seeds, and the names of the common barnyard animals and their babies. She's still not quite "getting" the use of the mouse, though she's willing to try. She enjoys typing and identifying the letters she makes, and can type any letter you ask her to. I think I'll wait till after her third birthday, then find a good Logo implementation. If there isn't one already, it shouldn't be too difficult to create one, it's a pretty simple language. Anyone around here have a yacc-able grammer for Logo? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message