Hello all,

Was curious if you had any good links or ideas for my 8 year old daughter
to do on her Slack box. As of now all she does is play a few games and
browses Disney.com and a few other kids sites. Looking for something fun
for her to do.

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In alt.os.linux.slackware, Mykil X dared to utter,
> Was curious if you had any good links or ideas for my 8 year old daughter
> to do on her Slack box. As of now all she does is play a few games and
> browses Disney.com and a few other kids sites. Looking for something fun
> for her to do.

Kids' sites are great. There's homestarrunner.com (great for adults
too!) and Seaseme Street's website, lots of others. You're not going to
find much in the way of educational software on linux except perhaps at
the k12ltsp (that is, kindergarden to 12th grade linux terminal server
project, which is ltsp with a learning bent to it for schools and
such).

Things she might like to actually do with _Slackware_ are likely very
few and far between.

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Than for a man to hear the song of fools.
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Hey, nice to see your daughter has an interest in programming. Ive seen
this question asked many places on the net, and I know you don't want
to get your daughter into C++, so what i would recommend is trying to
teach her Python (www.python.org), its pretty easy to learn and she can
take it with her as she gorws, as its a professional language. Either
that, or teach her shell scripting BTW, are you a programmer ?

Mykil X <freep@mail15.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Was curious if you had any good links or ideas for my 8 year old
> daughter to do on her Slack box. As of now all she does is play a few
> games and browses Disney.com and a few other kids sites. Looking for
> something fun for her to do.

Teach her how to type.

--
William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>
Open Geometry Consulting, Toronto, Canada
Linux solution for data processing.

Well if he mentioned programming in the topic title, obviously, she
must know how to type.....

On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 02:16:13 GMT, Mykil X <freep@mail15.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Was curious if you had any good links or ideas for my 8 year old daughter
> to do on her Slack box. As of now all she does is play a few games and
> browses Disney.com and a few other kids sites. Looking for something fun
> for her to do.

Check out http://www.squeak.org Squeak is a dialect of Smalltalk and
Smalltalk was originally designed to teach children to program. Lots of
stuff for everyone there.

John
--
Feeling exploited, impoverished or imprisoned??
Knock down the Gates of .... and break free into the "Brave GNU World" of the
"Free Software Foundation".
"Squeak" with delight at pleasure this freedom brings.

On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 20:23:48 -0800, Programmer1390 wrote:

> Well if he mentioned programming in the topic title, obviously, she must
> know how to type.....

How do you arrive at that conclusion? What makes you think that?

--
If you're not on the edge, you're taking up too much space.
Linux Registered User #327951

Mykil X wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Was curious if you had any good links or ideas for my 8 year old daughter
> to do on her Slack box. As of now all she does is play a few games and
> browses Disney.com and a few other kids sites. Looking for something fun
> for her to do.

Might want to teach her Fortran 90/95 (not 77).

Its a highly well organized language, often unjustly ignored by application
developers and at most college courses.

Just the kind of language that would help in developing good thinking
habits. And it could help develop an interest in math as well

Alternately, you could buy her a copy of Mathematica for Linux and let her
explore.

Programmer1390 wrote:

> Hey, nice to see your daughter has an interest in programming. Ive seen
> this question asked many places on the net, and I know you don't want
> to get your daughter into C++, so what i would recommend is trying to
> teach her Python (www.python.org), its pretty easy to learn and she can
> take it with her as she gorws, as its a professional language. Either
> that, or teach her shell scripting BTW, are you a programmer ?

If she is going to learn programming, I suggest she also learn Hindi, or
perhaps Chinese so that she will be able to get a job in Asia later in
life.... because there won't be any work here in the USA for her, that's for
damn sure!

ANC

+Alan Hicks+ wrote:
>Kids' sites are great. There's homestarrunner.com (great for adults
>too!) and Seaseme Street's website, lots of others. You're not going to
>find much in the way of educational software on linux except perhaps at
>the k12ltsp (that is, kindergarden to 12th grade linux terminal server
>project, which is ltsp with a learning bent to it for schools and
>such).

>Things she might like to actually do with _Slackware_ are likely very
>few and far between.

HomeStar Runner is great, have you seen the StrongBad Email where compy
gets the virus? I was laughing so hard.

I think she might be a bit to old for Sesame Street.
I'll google for ltsp, not sure what that;s all about. I wasn't really
looking for something really Slack specific for her age group, just
something fun, yet educational, that she could do besides games.

On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 19:59:30 -0800, Programmer1390 wrote:

> Hey, nice to see your daughter has an interest in programming. Ive seen
> this question asked many places on the net, and I know you don't want
> to get your daughter into C++, so what i would recommend is trying to
> teach her Python (www.python.org), its pretty easy to learn and she can
> take it with her as she gorws, as its a professional language. Either
> that, or teach her shell scripting BTW, are you a programmer ?

She doesn't really have an interest in programming per se, but she see's
me working on the computer all the time, and has mentioned/hinted that she
wants to do more than games. I was hoping there was something for kids to
do that could start them on the path of smart computing Yeah i think
C++ would be a little bit advanced for her lol (hell I don't even know it
yet) I was also curious if there was maybe a programming language that was
geared towards children, I;ve seen stranger things on the net. I'm
learning to program myself. I know java, but i'm still just a newb and
very inexperienced. Been looking at Python and learning it as well, so I
could help her write some simple hello world type stuff.

William Park wrote:

>Teach her how to type.

I do have KTouch setup for her, and she does play with it. I've taught her
the home keys and whatnot.

"Programmer1390":

>Well if he mentioned programming in the topic title, obviously, she
>must know how to type.....

Well she can't touch type yet, but she can type. I mean she understands
the concept lol

I haven't googled much myself yet, but was curious about maths and reading
"edutainment" type programs. I seem to remember Debian having some sort of
all in one kids program, but I forget the name.

I think something else that might be interesting would be getting one of
those lego MindStorm kits. I wonder if there is a Linux port for software
to run one of the kits. iirc they use some form of basic. I bet something
has been developed in Python.

Thanks for all the replies!