On 19 Feb 2009, at 11:09, Peter Becker wrote:
> I'd be very happy for my daughter to pick up some scientific or IT-
> type
> work, but so far I haven't been too successful. Maybe it is because
> she's not even 3 yet :-) But she got her first computer around her
> second birthday -- not a Barbie one but an old Pentium II with KDE on
> it, icons scaled up until they are really big and all mouse buttons
> mapped to button 1. She likes watching me use it, but she doesn't want
> to interact with it herself.
Check out tuxpaint. My young daughter found that quite entertaining
for 10 minutes or so (which is a pretty good stretch for her). Plus,
the stencil library comes with back-back (or "ducks" to you and me).
http://www.tuxpaint.org/
Sorry, it's not Java, but it is good, free software.
-Dom
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