Need Rec: Book to teach about computers and BASIC at an eight year old level

[drlegendre .]

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> Make sure you tell him that "cloud" is just a fancy term for "somebody
> else's computer". :)
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Or as I like to call it, "Socialized Computing". Except that unlike civic
socialism, you don't +necessarily+ run out of somebody else's compute
cycles.. ;-)

On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 11:04 AM, geneb <geneb at deltasoft.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 27 May 2016, Ali wrote:
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> I'd like him to understand why things work they way they do, that the cloud
>> is not a magical thing, and that at a certain level an
>> iPad=PC=5110=System/360.
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>> Make sure you tell him that "cloud" is just a fancy term for "somebody
> else's computer". :)
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> g.
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