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<TITLE>RE: [Kc] FW: Perl Quiz-of-the-Week #17 (hangman)</TITLE>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Doug Ledbetter wrote:</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> I'm still curious to see if he will persevere with the simple</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> stuff or if he will give up. It seems to me that either you</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> are born a computer geek or you're not. He doesn't strike me</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> as a computer geek so far. I don't want to force him down a</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> path he's not built to travel.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>You might consider steering him toward one of the FPS or RPG game modification communities. Level editing, etc. isn't too difficult. And you get the bonus of being able to walk through your creation. Not to mention that a lot of the games like Neverwinter Nights have not insignificant scripting engines.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>When I was a bit younger than your son, I was creating maps, etc. for some adventure style text based RPGs on an Apple II+. Nobody gave me a nudge or guidence, I just did it because it was fun. My brother at the same age could sit at the computer with a copy of Byte magazine and type in assembler for hours just to play a game someone else had written.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>If you can steer him toward something he's honestly interested in, then hopefully, his own intrinsic motivation and drive to accomplish moderately difficult tasks should guide him down the path into the tiny little details...</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Garrett</FONT>
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