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Show HN: The Unix Pipe Card Game: Process Substitution(punkx.org)
2 points by throwaway47292 4y ago|0 comments
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by throwaway47292 4y ago
I made this game so I can teach my daughter C, particularly thinking about how things exist in memory, while traveling and having dinner or waiting for the bus. Just grabbing a few cards and looking for where they exist in memory is a fun c
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Show HN: C Pointer Game – Pointers, Arrays and Strings for Kids(punkx.org)
3 points by throwaway47292 4y ago|1 comments
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by throwaway47292 4y ago
Oh! Because of the slow and costly printing process I read it like 50 times, and yet.. Its amazing how your brain just sees what it wants to see.
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by throwaway47292 4y ago
I really enjoy finding new ways to introduce her into how computers think, in the same time, I have to constantly level up my game, as I am competing with tiktok, instagram, youtube, netflix.. etc. So I have to come up with new incentives,
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by throwaway47292 4y ago
Ah! I didnt mean to show it off, just my desk is a mess.. Yea its a cyberdeck I am building with hardwired Atreus directly connected to pi zero gpios and using libuinput to make a software keyboard, which works amazing btw. I am making it t
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by throwaway47292 4y ago
I am halfway done with the C deck, as we are switching to C soon, and I will setup a kickstarter after, should be done around December. I want her to know why x[3] and 3[x] are the same thing. int x[3]; 2[x] = 5; printf(&quot
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by throwaway47292 4y ago
You can just generate the tiffs yourself with different colors, border_color is the color of the border and the comments https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/blob/8d14a24... (if you are talking abo
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by throwaway47292 4y ago
Now with everything on the cloud, kids are growing more and more disconnected with their computers, instead of the kid making the computer do something, they do some magic sequence of actions and sometimes things work, sometimes they dont.
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by throwaway47292 4y ago
Sorry, I copied ND and NC by mistake, I just pushed https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/commit/8d14a... to move to CC-BY-4.0 (removing NC and NC)
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by throwaway47292 4y ago
This is amazing! Thanks for sharing, I will try it with my daughter.
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by throwaway47292 4y ago
I print with some professional card printing companies, the pricing goes something like 10 decks, 500$, 50 decks 800$, 100 decks 1200$, and 300 decks 1500$ and then it continues to drop Since I printed only 50, I think the price is too high
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by throwaway47292 4y ago
I do that so there is no tracking, I want people to be able to download the pdfs without microsoft's knowledge :)
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Show HN: The Unix Pipe Card Game – teach kids basic Unix commands(punkx.org)
216 points by throwaway47292 4y ago|59 comments
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by throwaway47292 4y ago
I think most kids can learn basic programming and have different attitude towards software. Programs are going to determine their lives, from the tiktok feed algorithm to surveillance to filtering their CV for a job and even evaluating thei
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by throwaway47292 4y ago
thanks! fixed
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by throwaway47292 4y ago
This is true! I am still working on the games, but since it took me 2 months to make the programs, I decided to print anyway. https://punkx.org/4917/guide.html#game here I have just given examples of possible games, bu
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by throwaway47292 4y ago
This is the second game me and my daughter made, first one was https://punkjazz.org/programming-time/ and we really enjoy them both. The idea is for a parent and a kid to just pick few cards and play a bit after school
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Show HN: 4917 Machine Code for Kids – Card Game(punkx.org)
55 points by throwaway47292 4y ago|11 comments
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by throwaway47292 5y ago
4-5 days in queue is infeasible with modern amount of spam, especially generative spam (e.g. someone gets verisign's .com zone and sends one email to every john@domain) My gut feeling is that almost nobody waits more than few hours, pr
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Hackers Testifying at the United States Senate, May/19/1998(youtube.com)
2 points by throwaway47292 5y ago|0 comments
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by throwaway47292 5y ago
hmm the hardest one is to reduce stress (which now when we have a disaster bingo is really hard to do) which will directly impact your weight, therapy also helped me. a weird i have done is one is to make food just super inconvenient, and o
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by throwaway47292 5y ago
I have a friend who says: "when you invent more efficient lightbulbs, people do not consume less energy, they just get more light" Every time we did a milestone performance improvement in our infrastructure, e.g. search used to ta
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by throwaway47292 5y ago
wow those look amazing!
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by throwaway47292 5y ago
of course, that was my point scratch is great if kids like it, it is absolutely real programming language, i meant that just my kid didnt enjoy it
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by throwaway47292 5y ago
hehe i didnt want to put `between 1 and` because of the salt fiasco https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/5dd304276ba5745ec21... and then i had a typo .. i will fix in the next revision!
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by throwaway47292 5y ago
backspace and enter are especially an issue, i teach her to use ctrl+h and ctrl+j capslock being control, on windows i made https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/tree/master/... to help with th
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by throwaway47292 5y ago
> the poster's child is probably a native English speaker She is not, but started learning english when she was 5 or 6 by watching netflix peppa pig in english and with english subtitles, now she is almost 11 and watches anime in ja
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by throwaway47292 5y ago
> So a case study on a sample of 2 - does it count? no :) What would you have done if she was not interested in learning math or literacy? Also when you were 8, you didnt have about 1 million developers making 500k per year trying to ext
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by throwaway47292 5y ago
I dont know about the 'if they cant grasp BASIC' thing, but Scratch is not as inclusive as people think. My daughter was almost repulsed by it, but actually when I made a "laptop" ( https://github.com/jack

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