13 Jan
1999
13 Jan
'99
4:03 a.m.
|Eight years old and learning PDP-8 assembler? What
does she do on the
|weekends, solve differential equations?!? :-)
Actually, any reasonably intelligent 8 y/o who is
interested,
and who has learned to enjoy learning, is capable some level
of assembler programming.
Mine (Saskia, the younger one) was about 10 when she did some
6502 Machinecode programming (switch a lamp on, make sound,
etc.) on a 6502 Kit (Maybe you have seen the Tupperware box
on VCF 2.0 :).
It's amazing what society and the
schools can do to destroy a young mind.
Depends - it needs always an environment to encourage a child.
For example she (Saskia) was about the age of 4 1/2, when
she 'discovered' the PET (chicklet) in our Livingroom (I had
it standing beside the TV set as a display :). We had to show
her how to turn it on, and things like, how the shift key
functions - for several month she used the screen for paintings
made up with just the graphics symbols. I belive this has been
supported by the fact that I used to sit in the same room with
my Apple ][+.
Gruss
Hans
--
Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK