Kay
what a great idea!
Don't know of any existing tutorials, though.
Just some thoughts:
Once he learns html well enough, CF shouldn't be too hard for him-- in
fact, you may have trouble keeping up!
The key, I think is being able to pique his interest.
Do they have computer labs at the school he attends.
As a challenge, you might have him try to duplicate some of the
programs they use/write in the lab, on his web site-- likely, CF/HTML
has more power and presentation capability then what they use in the
lab (excluding word, excel, etc).
If he has friends with email accounts, set up a mailbox for him on your
site -- then have him develop a simple CF program to:
1) send mail
2) maintain an address book of his friends
3) receive mail
This could evolve to his own little email client.
At some early point, introduce him to a simple database, say for his
email clients
Ask him what he would like to have on his web site -- what interests
his friends -- likely the data processing needs of a teenager are not
too different than our own.
Does he collect anything -- write a program to keep track of it!
If he has access to a digital camera or scanner, then have him create a
photo album/slideshow where CF and a simple db is used to store image
metadata for search, display, etc.
He could do the same thing for his audio.
Not really CF, but he might like playing with SVG or Flash for some
graphic & animation effects.
A really cool capability, for when his skills have improved, is for him
to write a chat program that all his buddies can use (with secret
passwords, etc). I think there several several offerings in the tag
library that could be used as a starter.
Then, have him write a tutorial to teach his friends, etc.
Before long, you'll be asking him to answer questions about CF!
I have a six-year-old grandaughter & we are email pen pals -- the kids
have no fear!
Be sure and share the results with the rest of us!
Dick
On Saturday, December 7, 2002, at 07:11 AM, Kay Smoljak wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My little brother, who's 13, is just starting to learn HTML. I'm
> storing
> his personal site on my CF5 account. He wants his site to be cooler
> than
> anyone else's at school, so I was thinking of making him a simple CF
> tutorial - maybe using cfinclude to get a header on each page,
> displaying and formatting the current date and time, stuff like that.
> Before I do this all myself, does anyone know of anything similar
> online
> already? Or, any suggestions for what I could include?
>
> Thanks,
> Kay.
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