Re:How kids in a low-income country use laptops: lessons fro...
by solarkraft on Thursday April 05, 2018 @06:21PM
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At 11-13 or so I played a then popular Minecraft mod package from a collection called Feed the Beast [0] which included a mod called ComputerCraft [1] - That was my introduction to Lua and basic Unix concepts.
Now that I think about it that seems pretty similar to what you experienced with DOS&BASIC on a "real" computer.
Except the game mod also provides simple & powerful programmable robots called turtles that work similarly to scratch, but are way more fun and feel more useful. Using them was a really good introduction to computing for me.
The "interesting game" your son plays could well be one that integrates programming to advance in it, there are a lot nowadays.
Now that I think about it that seems pretty similar to what you experienced with DOS&BASIC on a "real" computer.
Except the game mod also provides simple & powerful programmable robots called turtles that work similarly to scratch, but are way more fun and feel more useful. Using them was a really good introduction to computing for me.
The "interesting game" your son plays could well be one that integrates programming to advance in it, there are a lot nowadays.
[0]: https://www.feed-the-beast.com/ [1]: http://computercraft.info/wiki/Main_Page