[Kc] FW: Perl Quiz-of-the-Week #17 (hangman)

[Otterson,Gary]

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!



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.



Gary 



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From: kc-bounces at mail.pm.org [mailto:kc-bounces at mail.pm.org] On Behalf
Of Garrett Goebel
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 5:19 PM
To: Doug Ledbetter; kc at mail.pm.org
Subject: RE: [Kc] FW: Perl Quiz-of-the-Week #17 (hangman)



Doug Ledbetter wrote:
> Garrett Goebel wrote:
> >
> > Parenting and mentoring are hard
>
> "Parenting and mentoring are hard."  That's a drastic
> understatement!

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 ;-)

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