Re:Via introduces APC Paper: A $99 Android PC
by protomyth on Thursday January 17, 2013 @12:10PM
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"The other thing that I did was to put together a desktop from parts with him over the holidays, which was a bit more fun than our usual yearly giant lego build, and I hope will give him an idea that these machines aren't magic-- they are put together, even if I don't have the skills to convey that at the circuit level."
How much did it cost to build? I would wager it was more than $200. To put together a PC is beyond a lot of parents skill.
But there are a lot of good tools without creating anything new. IMO, the real places for improvement are learning methods.
My own idea has been to get my boy to start learning javascript via codecademy. We're seeing how that goes.
He's 11 and more interested in minecraft (which, IMO, has a similar set of activities such as wikis and researching via message boards as my own day-to-day why-doesn't-this-work programming issues), but we'll see how this goes.
The other thing that I did was to put together a desktop from parts with him over the holidays, which was a bit more fun than our usual yearly giant lego build, and I hope will give him an idea that these machines aren't magic-- they are put together, even if I don't have the skills to convey that at the circuit level.