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47 ak@rejecttheframe.xyz 1 week ago
sons homeschooling journey has begun with his first computer. any recommendations for best 'your first computer' type learning modules for kids? trying to decide where to begin. terminal, learning to type etc etc. suggestions and particularly from anyone with experience with their own kids very welcome

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Kingbee 1 week ago
No advice here. Best of luck and enjoy the ride.
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Daedalus _@daedalus.website 1 week ago
I'd say go Linux, maybe even no DE terminal only to start off. Teach them bash then build from there. Kids easily get sucked into computer = videogames and thus never learn how they properly work and how to create with them thus starting from the ground up may give them a greater respect for computing. Too many years of my childhood wasted on games when I could have been linuxmaxxing or codemaxxing.
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47 ak@rejecttheframe.xyz 1 week ago
exactly what i'm worried about. just getting stuck as a consumer watching youtube videos and being nummed to sleep
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xSilentG 1 week ago
Build one, or take apart & explore an old one for hardware/ foundation learning 🌻
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aljaz aljaz@nostr.si 1 week ago
Maybe raspberry pi, theres tons of materials out there (it was literarly created as a teaching platform
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John 1 week ago
Starting with logic gates would be cool. Or teaching him to bot in runescape
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47 ak@rejecttheframe.xyz 1 week ago
thankyou bro. Appreciate it. Id be chatting more but am stuck in the fiat mines rn getting absolutely pumped lmao
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GFY gfy@nostrplebs.com 1 week ago
CSS IS HARD TO MASTER, BUT EASY TO START. MAYBE LET THEM PICK A FREE WEBSITE TEMPLATE AND START TWEAKING THINGS, MAKE THEIR OWN SITE
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47 ak@rejecttheframe.xyz 1 week ago
will do. am aware of it just havent played around with it myself. Tend to be debian maxi mostly because of work but will check it out
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