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<title>RE: [Kc] FW: Perl Quiz-of-the-Week #17 (hangman)</title>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>What ever you do don’t become discourage.
When my kids were in junior high and early high school I tried every thing I could
think of to get them interested in doing some kind of programming. In the summer
months they would be complaining of the boredom, I tried to get them interested
but nothing I did worked. A few years later when my oldest was in her Schema class
(a dialect of LISP) at MIT she was very upset with me that I did not push her
harder to learn to code. Dad was right. Not much satisfaction when I had to write
the check so she could take the course over the next semester. It all worked
out both kids graduated from college and are in IT and doing well. Don’t
give up! <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>One thing I did observe was a lot of the
kids at MIT that did come prepared having a strong programming or electronics background
had started young. Their parents had got the interest started way before girl
friends or boy friends, hanging out at the mall, or even sports. Not sure if
this was good for them in the long run or not. Several of them that I talked to
had received there first Radio Shack nerd kit when they were 10 or 11. I feel
if I had put a nerd kit under the Christmas tree it would have gone strait to a
dark corner of a closet and stayed there. The interest in science did not come
until late in high school.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
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kc-bounces@mail.pm.org [mailto:kc-bounces@mail.pm.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Garrett Goebel<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, August 12, 2004
5:19 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Doug Ledbetter; kc@mail.pm.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [Kc] FW: Perl
Quiz-of-the-Week #17 (hangman)</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Doug
Ledbetter wrote:</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>> Garrett Goebel wrote:</span></font>
<br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>> ></span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>> > Parenting and mentoring
are hard</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>> </span></font><br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>> "Parenting and mentoring
are hard." That's a drastic</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>> understatement!</span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I meant
"hard" in the same way that Donald Knuth does when he describes a
particular math problem as hard. I.e, nigh to impossible ;-)</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>--</span></font>
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<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Garrett Goebel</span></font> <br>
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