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Re:Tech Execs Who Raise Their Kids Tech-Free or Limit Their ... by c22 on Friday December 30, 2022 @03:17PM (#34189530)
I gave my 5 year old a pc running linux when she learned to read. She became interested in the command line when she saw me using it to help her find a file she had misplaced. I gave her a list of simple commands and let her explore. By the time she was 7 she had full mastery of the command line and was writing her own bash scripts to provide herself with functionality similar to your "PlayOS".

The other one never got into it, he prefers to use the gui with the touch screen and mostly consumes minecraft or youtube videos about minecraft. If he needs tech support he asks his sister. I'm fine with all of it. He builds some amazing things in minecraft.

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Re:Tech Execs Who Raise Their Kids Tech-Free or Limit Their ... by all2 on Friday December 30, 2022 @03:44PM (#34189874)
I love that your kids are on the "opposite" ends of the tech stack. One is achieving mastery of relatively low level software and file manipulation and the other is achieving mastery of high level visual programming.
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Re:Tech Execs Who Raise Their Kids Tech-Free or Limit Their ... by pyth0 on Friday December 30, 2022 @06:50PM (#34191588)
Maybe you could introduce your other one to command blocks and logic gates in redstone. Not that they have to enjoy computing in that way, but it was a big reason I became interested in the field when I was younger.
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