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    Re: I was bested by a 9 year old girl in Linux

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    Re: I was bested by a 9 year old girl in Linux

    First thing I thought when I read this "1337 xkcd".

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    I remember coding very basic/primitive games on my C64 in BASIC when I was in 2nd grade. I have a friend with a 3 year old that is pretty lethal with FPS's.
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    Re: I was bested by a 9 year old girl in Linux

    That's pretty awesome, I met this 13-year-old once who did CAD-related stuff with Blender, that's about as close as I've gotten to meeting someone like that.

    I learned just about everything I know about computers myself, my dad has always had a computer related job but he never told me, for example, that he used AutoCAD in the early '90s and studied software engineering. He hasn't taught me a whole lot however.

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    Re: I was bested by a 9 year old girl in Linux

    Quote Originally Posted by dsavi View Post
    That's pretty awesome, I met this 13-year-old once who did CAD-related stuff with Blender, that's about as close as I've gotten to meeting someone like that.

    I learned just about everything I know about computers myself, my dad has always had a computer related job but he never told me, for example, that he used AutoCAD in the early '90s and studied software engineering. He hasn't taught me a whole lot however.
    Yeah, the laptop was supposed to be for 2D animation as well. I always found that home schooled kids were kind of shut in, or in the case of my cousins, insane. She actually initiated the conversation by talking about Angry Birds.

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    Midget Mafia -- they go around hacking display computers at Best Buy.

    Probably the same dwarf who made my local Best Buy close down when the power grid in the store mysteriously went down.

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    Re: I was bested by a 9 year old girl in Linux

    my 5 year old cant even play well super mario world, since it requires lots of precise jumping (so i just figured out this game is for 7+ year olds...)

    But for some strange reason he already could beat super smash brothers (which i thought was for older kids...)

    as far as for programming my 5 year old kid cant read full words yet, so how the heck did the little girl got started at 4?
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    Re: I was bested by a 9 year old girl in Linux

    Quote Originally Posted by madjr View Post
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    as far as for programming my 6 year old kid cant read full words yet, so how the heck did the little girl got started at 4?
    genetics...
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    Re: I was bested by a 9 year old girl in Linux

    Quote Originally Posted by madjr View Post

    as far as for programming my 6 year old kid cant read full words yet, so how the heck did the little girl got started at 4?
    kids learn to read at different ages, I started to read around 3 or 4 as did my younger brother.
    I had to do it.

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    Re: I was bested by a 9 year old girl in Linux

    Children learn easier than adults. They just are not as creative (from my experience). In my humble opinion, I think the best time to teach someone programming is a young age, not only will it teach them logic, they will retain it well.

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