[geeks] Little Kids + Unix

[William S.]

Mike,

I sometimes think we underestimate kids. We tend to throw
too much graphics and sounds their way just to amuse them.
I would try to introduce UNIX at the console level.
Maybe load up a text-based game; set up a database to keep track
of records (opps, I mean CD's); Keep track of baseball cards;
Write simple programs. A nice vt220 would be simple
but effective.

What 'ya think?

Bill
Amsterdam, NL
(former secondary school science teacher)

On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 03:01:39PM -0500, Michael Dombrowski wrote:
> My little brother has a PC in his room which he uses primarily for 
> playing games and web surfing. I'd like to introduce him to unix and 
> that there is a way of doing things other than PCs. What would you 
> all recommend to get a 10yr interested in Unix? I'm probably gonna 
> stick an XTerm in his room and have it logon to my Ultra30 so there's 
> a pretty beefy machine to run whatever. I was thinking maybe some 
> sort of basic with support for graphics but I don't know if that 
> would be best. Only other requirement is that it look decent with 
> only 8bit graphics.