programming-for-kids

sn't use often, but the idea of one program reading another program's output she got. Also grasping the command line was not that difficult. But I used quite some tricks to help. For example her windows PC I change the shell from explorer to cmd.exe, so it boots in cmd, so she has to navigate and also fix it. I also make scavenger hunts on her filesystem so she has to look for a file using dir and cd and etc, also https://overthewire.org/wargames/bandit/ I bribed her with robux for passing each level of the bandit game I want to teach her how computers work and how to make them do what she wants. From what is a register, to an instruction, to a program to a process. Kihon no Kihon as they say. But in the process I also teach her how to break things down and how to think and most importantly how to learn. I teach her about the heart of things, so there is no mystery between the keyboard press and the letter appearing on the screen, or how chatgpt predicts the next word (I am working on a RNN board game with 3 neurons and you have to teach it to count https://punkx.org/move-37/rnn.pdf [work in progress]) So in the end I am not sure if it matters what you teach your children :)

ogress log here https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/blob/master/...

is quite steep at start, and then it gets super boring, so if you can reduce the scope as much as possible, and manage to get to some playable state its amazing, if you use godot or some other engine you can make the game playable on web so he can share it with his friends its really nice.

/), or downloading music or generating music, writing games with python/lua/c, making autoclickers or bots, pranks, hacking things (e.g. explaining and using the whatsapp url parse bug recently was very fun), playing war games etc, but every day I have to spend a lot of time thinking about what is the "right" next lesson, what does she need to learn to level up. Learning programming is not a curve at all, it is a staircase and stairs are like walls for some people. It might take 10 years to get to the next level. You can have people programming whole complex programs without having any idea what is going on. That being said, the future of programming pedagogy and andragogy is very open, and I am very happy for every attempt to try to make a dent in it.

. We did a lot of exercises where I asked her to think what would the next word be given a sequences of words just by thinking about their probabilities, like: 'Your name is ChatGPT. What is your' and the next word is going to be probably 'name' and then '?' and then 'My' How do you explain it to your kids? Do you worry about them using it? Since OpenAI makes it super easy to login with gmail (and her gmail is a kid account), I didn't even know she had a user there until she told me, but I think most kids in her class use it without their parents knowing. PS: Sorry I submitted the AskHN with url filled in and that made it remove the AskHN part of it and also mangled the url and etc, so i am just submitting again without url this time

We did a lot of exercises where I asked her to think what would the next word be given a sequences of words just by thinking about their probabilities, like: 'Your name is ChatGPT. What is your' and the next word is going to be probably 'name' and then '?' and then 'My' How do you explain it to your kids? Do you worry about them using it? Since OpenAI makes it super easy to login with gmail (and her gmail is a kid account), I didn't even know she had a user there until she told me, but I think most kids in her class use it without their parents knowing.

lso aded epilepsy warning on the cards that are very visual (like randomly rotating the screen 90 degrees). The deck is also licensed CC BY 4.0, so anyone can re-print it, and are the people printing it and sharing it liable as well? The warning I have now is made by me and you can see it on the first card, but I will also paste it here: WARNING! WARING! WARNING! USE THE CODE FROM THESE CARDS AT YOUR OWN RISK. THESE PRANKS ARE PURELY FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES AND ARE NOT INTENDED TO CAUSE HARM. THE AUTHOR OF THIS DECK IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE, LOSS OF DATA, OR OTHER CONSEQUENCES THAT MAY ARISE FROM THE USE OF THESE PRANKS. BY USING THESE PRANKS, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU ARE FULLY AWARE OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF YOUR ACTIONS AND THAT YOU UNDERSTAND THE CODE ON THESE CARDS. IF YOU ARE UNDER 18 YEARS OLD, YOU MUST OBTAIN THE CONSENT OF YOUR PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN BEFORE USING THESE PRANKS. BY USING THESE PRANKS, YOU AGREE TO RELEASE AND HOLD HARMLESS THE AUTHOR OF THIS DECK FROM ANY CLAIMS, DEMANDS, OR DAMAGES, WHETHER KNOWN OR UNKNOWN, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH YOUR USE OF THESE PRANKS. Any advice will be super helpful, I really think the pranks are very fun and educational if used properly, but like any prank it can go too far. Thanks in advance. EDIT: Forgot to say, I am in The Netherlands, but send decks worldwide, not sure if that matters when selling physical products online

The goal is to have < 50$ scavenger hunt computer kit (thats why I cant afford teensy or something) This is just the prototype to see how it feels to write code using line editor, and also to test the effect of thinking of the keyboard as a program with a nested for loop, on her thinking about 'what happens when you press a key' for r in rows: send(r, 1) for c in cols: v = read(c) if v == 1: # (r,c) is pressed send(r, 0) I just uploaded those to show you how it looks, but again, its just to test the software and the screens size: https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/blob/master/... https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/blob/master/...