This is more about encouragement than "how to", but encouragement is probably all he needs anyway!
My son was about 5 or so and had games he played on the computer. One day he wanted to show me something in a game, and when we went to the computer, the icon was missing from the desktop. I told him I would put it back for him, and he said, "that's OK, I know how" -- and he did. I still have no idea how he knew how to do that. So -- if I had taught him how I might have been able to help you... I also insist that the first engineer was the guy who was scratching a field with a rock to plant something, threw down the rock, and said, "there has to be a better way". Power to him. On Thursday, May 7, 2015 at 7:00:30 AM UTC-5, Scott Jones wrote: > > Has anybody had any experience teaching Julia to kids? > This is *not* a joke, my almost 9 year old son has a science project due > next week. > He knows some Lua (which he originally learned from the ComputerCraft mod > in MineCraft, and then using the Codea > app for the iPad), but he's seen how I've fallen in love with Julia, and > he wants to use Julia for his project > (which is doing some tests of peoples visual and auditory memory, using > random 7 digit sequences, > and then doing some simple calculations on the results...). > He's basically a lazy boy [see the following link, to understand that that > is the highest complement I pay people :-) (see > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Enough_for_Love#The_Tale_of_the_Man_Who_Was_Too_Lazy_to_Fail > ] > and he wants the computer to do a lot of his work for him... > > >
