[TriLUG] How young is too young for linux-ish training?

[Edwin Castillo]

My 7 year old son has a wordpress site and I help him edit it when he is up
to it. I even have my wife put comments up there to get him motivated.

Teaching a 7 year old is a fickle thing. One day we are doing Story Telling
Alice http://www.alice.org/kelleher/storytelling/index.html, the next day we
are creating batch files that ask silly questions about his 4 year old
brother and the next day we are fixing old RC cars.

You have to be versatile. My son can stick to something for a week at most
and than be bored with it. I just continue looking for new things. I'm
constantly picking up clues from sites like instructables.com and Make
magazine http://makezine.com/. I'm always looking for myself, but when I
find a part he can help with I make him a part of it.

Don't give up if he drops that interest. Just look for another thing.

Regards,
Edwin Castillo, KK4DDM


On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Joel J. Adamson <joeljamesadamson at gmail.com
> wrote:

> "Brian Henning" <bhenning at pineinst.com> writes:
>
> > If you didn't play recordings of RMS and Linus Torvalds to him in the
> womb,
> > you're already behind!
>
> I came pretty close with my son: when I was working pretty hard at
> learning about programming (making up for lost time), my older son was
> 1.5 yrs old and my wife was pregnant with our second one (now 3).  I
> would get up early in the morning and watch the Abelson-Sussman SICP
> Lectures[1], and often my wife and son would join me after about 30
> mins.  Quincy seemed to enjoy the funny guys with the chalk ;)  Pretty
> soon after that I started showing him Unix history videos on Youtube.
> He's pretty much set as a nerd for life (we'll see...).
>
> Joel
>
>
> Footnotes:
> [1]
> http://www.archive.org/details/StructuredInterpretationOfComputerProgramsLecture5a
>
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