My children have been watching me "play" with julia for years now. They are now 12 and 14. No question that "manipulate" is the way to start. (and by the way that's true for adults too)
You can use "manipulate" with anything, just a matter of imagination, I'd think. On Thursday, May 7, 2015 at 8:44:50 AM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote: > > 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... >> >> >>
