tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690472945730852036.post4817590612130636681..comments2023-08-16T11:00:39.023+01:00Comments on Dear Dave: The box of delightsDadsDinnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00409820799442134743noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690472945730852036.post-42782953538799654302008-07-03T22:18:00.000+01:002008-07-03T22:18:00.000+01:00A legitimate reason to buy LEGO Mindstorms is the ...A legitimate reason to buy <A HREF="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/search?ie=UTF8&keywords=lego%20mindstorms&tag=dadsdincom-21&index=toys-uk&linkCode=ur2&camp=1634&creative=6738" REL="nofollow">LEGO Mindstorms</A> is <I>the</I> prime reason for having children.<BR/><BR/>I've still got a couple of years to wait yet, though (and a huge pile of cash to find...)DadsDinnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00409820799442134743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690472945730852036.post-16155894837266933452008-07-03T16:16:00.000+01:002008-07-03T16:16:00.000+01:00oh, WOW!!!!!how cool! it makes even meccano pale i...oh, WOW!!!!!<BR/>how cool! it makes even meccano pale into insignificance...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690472945730852036.post-39110100709323386062008-07-02T12:41:00.000+01:002008-07-02T12:41:00.000+01:00Just remembered that I already have a plan for tea...Just remembered that I already have a plan for teaching Sprog1 to program - it's LEGO MindStorms. Even if it doesn't work, I'll be having too much fun to care.DadsDinnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00409820799442134743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690472945730852036.post-1617282710794616012008-07-01T15:33:00.000+01:002008-07-01T15:33:00.000+01:00Not sure about the best way of getting kids to pro...Not sure about the best way of getting kids to program (I will undoubtedly get to watch this in a couple of years), but I recently managed to get my (biologist) PhD student to start thinking he could program by showing him how CGI queries worked, and giving him a few bash scripts and telling him to pick lines out here and there to make a new script. <BR/><BR/>Until then he'd been going quiet and Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690472945730852036.post-66349669413165882352008-06-30T21:57:00.000+01:002008-06-30T21:57:00.000+01:00Gwen - The weird thing is, if asked which of my ch...Gwen - The weird thing is, if asked which of my children are the most similar, I'd immediately reply Sprog1 ('Fraser') and Sproglette ('Marie'). Yet, they do entirely different things. I think it's tied to the particular manner in which they try to drive me crazy while doing them...<BR/><BR/>Dr Ellen - Sprog2 could easily discover sport one day. Sprog1, meanwhile, should probably be quietly DadsDinnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00409820799442134743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690472945730852036.post-24001836948213004422008-06-27T23:44:00.000+01:002008-06-27T23:44:00.000+01:00This all sounds good to me. It's not as though the...This all sounds good to me. It's not as though they'll be on computer games forever, anyway - hopefully at some point soon you can introduce programming... and the fact they could get paid squillions to be geometry/machine learning geniuses who sit round all day writing computer games... and they may well discover sport anyway. My husband was started on VBA (?) at 2, spent his entire childhood inAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690472945730852036.post-17436133019113726862008-06-27T11:57:00.000+01:002008-06-27T11:57:00.000+01:00Isn't it funny how kids from the same family can b...Isn't it funny how kids from the same family can be so different? (And not just the boy - girl thing either...)Gwenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12953347562329586677noreply@blogger.com