LOL, love it! I wouldn't have thought a 4 year old would have big enough hands to master all those emacs key combinations ;-)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 25 October 2010 15:41, Richard Smedley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:smedley358@btinternet.com">smedley358@btinternet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On 25/10/10 15:26, Dan Lynch wrote:<br>
> Get the kids<br>
> learning Bash commands early, that's the future hehe :)<br>
<br>
</div>Back in the 90s I gave my 4yr-old daughter an old PC [1]<br>
running a lightweight window manager - however I didn't<br>
use a display manager; she had to log in and type startx<br>
to get the gui up. She also had Emacs for writing stories.<br>
<br>
The idea behind this, what some may call wilful cruelty,<br>
was that although she'd probably use a GUI throughout<br>
most of her life, if a computer at any time dropped<br>
her to the command line (if the X-Window-server failed),<br>
or if tech support asked her to open a terminal, she<br>
wouldn't be phased by it, as it would be something every<br>
day.<br>
<br>
We should never over-simplify things for kids - simplify<br>
them just enough, and no more :)<br>
<br>
- Richard<br>
<br>
[1] It may have been something as fast as a Pentium I.<br>
I remember running a GUI once on a 486, maxed out<br>
to 12MB RAM - it wasn't fun :-/<br>
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