Christian et al,
sorry for the somewhat off-topicness:
On Jun 21, 2015, at 5:56 PM, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove
captainkirk...@gmail.com wrote:
The RPi comes with a free full version of Mathematica? That intrigues
me; I've never used it before but I hear it's similar to MAPLE? (Then
On 21 June 2015 at 18:21, Tapley, Mark mtap...@swri.edu wrote:
It’s actually full V10 Mathematica, which was the thing that pushed me into
getting it. It does depend on the web-link for lots of the help features, but
I think is otherwise complete. It is also SLOW compared to most Mathematica
On 6/20/2015 8:06 PM, William Donzelli wrote:
Right. Get 'em hooked on Minecraft, and then it'll be easier to push them into
harder drugs like VHDL later! :)
There is a good grain of truth to that. In complex Minecraft command
block systems, a programmer has to think about many, many tasks,
On Jun 19, 2015, at 10:55 PM, Toby Thain t...@telegraphics.com.au wrote:
On 2015-06-19 11:21 PM, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove wrote:
On 19 June 2015 at 22:38, William Donzelli wdonze...@gmail.com wrote:
Let him play Minecraft. Start with simple redstone contraptions, then
move to command
And one more mine craft thingy, with a raspberry pi twist:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/withpiper/piper-a-minecraft-toolbox-for-budding-engineers
They had these set up on pi day at the CHM and the kids involved really seemed
to get into the physical interfacing and puzzles.
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Right. Get 'em hooked on Minecraft, and then it'll be easier to push them
into harder drugs like VHDL later! :)
There is a good grain of truth to that. In complex Minecraft command
block systems, a programmer has to think about many, many tasks,
running in parallel, each triggered by real time
On 2015-06-20 8:06 PM, William Donzelli wrote:
Right. Get 'em hooked on Minecraft, and then it'll be easier to push them into
harder drugs like VHDL later! :)
There is a good grain of truth to that. In complex Minecraft command
block systems, a programmer has to think about many, many tasks,
On 2015-06-19 11:21 PM, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove wrote:
On 19 June 2015 at 22:38, William Donzelli wdonze...@gmail.com wrote:
Let him play Minecraft. Start with simple redstone contraptions, then
move to command blocks.
I'm not ashamed to admit I (24 y/o) play Minecraft now and again (with
