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[Kilaru Sambaiah]

> I have been scouring the net to find something of interest for my son.
> Whilst he is just 11 years old now he loves his computers. As well as the
> macs we are now surrounded with, he has ubuntu on the go as well. He goes to
> the apple store on a weekly basis but they are running out of things to
> teach him as they are only allowed to teach their applications and he is now
> more interested in what makes them tick and why. There are mac user groups
> around but I'm not sure that is what he needs.  I do what i can with him but
> i am not the source of knowledge he needs. Whilst i love the technology i do
> not have the answers. He is now playing around with the SDK for the iPhone -
> though he has not managed to create anything that works yet - so i
> desperately need to feed his interest. I found the UK linux user groups page
> and your contact within but the hyper links for the various groups all cycle
> back to the UK's home page. I Don't know if thats intentional or if there is
> some error at the moment. We are in Potters Bar so not far from you. What
> can you suggest for us.
>
Hi,
   It is nice to see 11 years old doing several things, I feel learning GUI
or related things different to learning basics.
   If I look back, I could love GCD algorithm (as it is recursive) in say
Haskell (why? no need to think about memory
   allocation etc as in C and Haskell syntax can be learned in a day). It is
interesting to look class books and try to
   write algorithms finding largest prime numbers etc. I love SICP vidoes
and book as it is mostly mathematics related
  (structure and interpretation of computer programming not remembered where
videos are there). Reading carefully
  Unix Programming Environment book and working (rather taking out KDE or
GNOME from Ubuntu rather I prefer
  going with only OpenBSD with minimal install) all the problems in the
book. I am sure opinions differ and doing these
  are slow and challenging in my opinion.
thanks,
Sam
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