jackdoe/programming-for-kids on Hacker News

…since she was 10, and I try to spend time every day doing something, you can see our progress here: https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/blob/master/... It is difficult because I have to compete with snapchat and google/meta for…

comment by throwaway71271 · 2024-07-23 · in The Unix Pipe Card Game

…her the deep mastery of baking with all my heart. PS: you can check my teaching progress log here https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/blob/master/...

comment by throwaway71271 · 2024-03-14 · in Show HN: PyKidos, Teach Your Kid Python in the Browser

…art (you can also get some basic game ideas from there, like snake or tictactore or whereiswaldo): https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/blob/master/... I think the curve of excitement is quite steep at start, and then it gets…

comment by throwaway71271 · 2024-01-18 · in Ask HN: 9-yo son wants to build a game, I'm lost. What can I do?

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story by plurby · 2023-11-02 · 1 comment

…and apply it to your current file. A bit like your LOAD81 but with text. I have a prototype now: https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/blob/master/... but it has a long way to go.

comment by throwaway71271 · 2023-10-03 · in PicoCalc: A fully-functional clone of VisiCalc for the PICO-8

…is so incredibly difficult, I am trying to teach my daughter, 343 days so far (12 yo, log here: https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/blob/master/... ) and I am not sure it is a tooling problem at all. The problem seems to be to…

comment by throwaway71271 · 2023-06-16 · in Two years of teaching high school CS

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story by throwaway71271 · 2023-04-04 · 0 comments

…be about ChatGPT (we spend every day doing a bit of coding and I log it in this repository): https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/blob/master/... Today before school I asked her to reflect on what ChatGPT is, and she had a…

comment by throwaway71271 · 2023-04-04 · in How do you explain ChatGPT to your kids

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story by throwaway71271 · 2023-04-04 · 3 comments

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story by throwaway71271 · 2023-03-01 · 5 comments

…a tshirt with some of her code, or made a huge poster with one of the turtle images she made ( https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/blob/master/... ), or sometimes its pure bribery, like buying robux. When I was her age, I spent…

comment by throwaway47292 · 2022-10-17 · in Show HN: The Unix Pipe Card Game – teach kids basic Unix commands

…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/...

comment by throwaway47292 · 2022-10-16 · in Show HN: The Unix Pipe Card Game – teach kids basic Unix commands

…the tiffs yourself with different colors, border_color is the color of the border and the comments https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/blob/8d14a24... (if you are talking about the programming time game)

comment by throwaway47292 · 2022-10-16 · in Show HN: The Unix Pipe Card Game – teach kids basic Unix commands

Sorry, I copied ND and NC by mistake, I just pushed https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/commit/8d14a... to move to CC-BY-4.0 (removing NC and NC)

comment by throwaway47292 · 2022-10-16 · in Show HN: The Unix Pipe Card Game – teach kids basic Unix commands

…the files are available on GitHub [1] but they choose to leave downloads up on their domain. 1: https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/tree/master/...

comment by pluc · 2022-10-16 · in Show HN: The Unix Pipe Card Game – teach kids basic Unix commands

More from the author: https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids

comment by petespeed · 2022-10-16 · in Show HN: The Unix Pipe Card Game – teach kids basic Unix commands

…can to break down the tech barrier and make them literate. (this is my log of teaching my daughter https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids I have posted it in other comments so it looks weird, but I have gotten some feedback that…

comment by throwaway47292 · 2022-04-17 · in Show HN: 4917 Machine Code for Kids – Card Game

…especially an issue, i teach her to use ctrl+h and ctrl+j capslock being control, on windows i made https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/tree/master/... to help with that

comment by throwaway47292 · 2022-02-25 · in Show HN: Programming Time - Playing card game to teach your kids Python

…as people think. My daughter was almost repulsed by it, but actually when I made a "laptop" ( https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/blob/master/... ) of a pi zero and a small screen that boots into vim, and she started to make…

comment by throwaway47292 · 2022-02-24 · in Show HN: Programming Time - Playing card game to teach your kids Python

…almost 11 now, but we are coding every day for almost a year now (I am logging the progress here: https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids ). Its often we go to the number line :) but because we usually make games, and it was easy…

comment by throwaway47292 · 2022-02-24 · in Show HN: Programming Time - Playing card game to teach your kids Python

I was thinking of making my kid's login auto-run a fullscreen VICE C=64 Here's another approach https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids

comment by thanatos519 · 2022-02-04 · in Ask HN: How can I make a “kid's computer” today as good as an Apple II?

…I am trying to create some time per day, in a safe space where she can be creative and bored. [1]: https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/blob/master/...

comment by throwaway47292 · 2022-02-04 · in Ask HN: How can I make a “kid's computer” today as good as an Apple II?

There is this one: https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids

comment by nikivi · 2021-12-19 · in Ask HN: Are there any good “coding for kids” books?

…pedagogy or even andragogy of how to teach technology. Check out my progress with my daughter(10): https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids , We are also making a card game https://punkjazz.org/programming-time/easy.html to play…

comment by throwaway47292 · 2021-12-04 · in Is the big tech era ending?

…it easy to explain how crazy the world is, so we uploaded an NFT few days ago (day 148 of the log) https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/blob/master/...

comment by throwaway47292 · 2021-11-18 · in TheNFTbay.org – The Billion Dollar Torrent (All NFT's from Ethereum and Solana)

…to 'pipe' one program's output into another's input She knows a bit of python (here is the log https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids ) and wants to talk about programming for her school report and I thought it will be great to…

comment by throwaway47292 · 2021-11-04 · in I introduced my 5-year-old and 2-year-old to startx and xmonad (2012)

…you see the opponent's code and can react to it. If anyone has ideas please make pull request at https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids (punk dir) or send me email at detectiveninja@fastmail.com

comment by throwaway47292 · 2021-09-28 · in Show HN: RFC) PUNK – 2 player strategy programming game for education (Python)

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story by loughnane · 2021-09-12 · 0 comments

keep in mind mask alone is not enough https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/blob/master/... and glasses + mask as well https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/blob/master/... and this is…

comment by throwaway47292 · 2021-09-11 · in Facial recognition technology: How to opt out at the airport

thanks for the link! i immediately tried it https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/blob/master/... its a screenshot of detecting me despite the paint, and i tried whole bunch of colors and etc to trick it that my eyes are not…

comment by throwaway47292 · 2021-09-11 · in Facial recognition technology: How to opt out at the airport

…fund it. (I hope it will be called move-78 as Lee Sedol's hand of god move against alpha go) [1]: https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/blob/master/... [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxbazQ6wJlU

comment by throwaway47292 · 2021-09-11 · in Facial recognition technology: How to opt out at the airport

…visual programming were incredibly helpful. (tomorrowcorporation.com) I document the process here: https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids

comment by throwaway47292 · 2021-08-29 · in Snap is Scheme disguised as Scratch [pdf]

…undervalue with some toned down gray), and almost all themes make keywords extremely important. [1] https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/issues/3#iss...

comment by throwaway47292 · 2021-08-17 · in Improved C syntax highlighting for Vim

…are a lot of fun. I enjoy them a lot as well. Today we were using the program we wrote yesterday ( https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids#day-100-basi... ) and we tweaked it a bit to have 'pause/start' and she wanted to continue…

comment by throwaway47292 · 2021-08-15 · in How to teach programming and other things (2019) [video]

…I also spend time on things like how to steal someone's cookie, and what is a cookie day 51,52,53 ( https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids#day-52-basic... ) and also we spend a lot of time touchtyping, so her thoughts easier to be…

comment by throwaway47292 · 2021-08-15 · in How to teach programming and other things (2019) [video]

…`hdj` when she was going to use them immediately after. I am writing a log of how the lessons go: https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids

comment by throwaway47292 · 2021-08-14 · in How to teach programming and other things (2019) [video]

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story by punnerud · 2021-07-11 · 0 comments

…with her and just coding, explaining and making small useful things. here I am logging the process: https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids

comment by detectiveninja · 2021-07-11 · in Teaching Lego Boost: A Beginner's Guide (2020)