Computers for children (soldering)

From: Brett Crapser <brett_at_xnet.com>
Date: Thu Jan 14 21:52:51 1999

On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Doug Yowza wrote:
> > These little childhood adventures are good for you. Taught me more than
> > aimlessly wandering about town every weekend.
>
> Yeah, I'm amazed I survived some of the experiments I performed as a kid.
> With the supercomputers and high-end graphics workstations we all have on
> our desks now, you'd think that some *really* life-like simulations could
> be written that would allow kids to make all of the same mistakes we did,
> but sans scar tissue. We still need a good smellovision device to give
> them a good sense of singed eyebrows, though.

Well - I am a FIRM believer - no matter what you do or say or show or any
other function you can think of - There is only ONE way that you learn
what HOT means. Everyone learns that the via the same method - you touch
it. The only thing that changes - is the IT you learn from.

BC
Received on Thu Jan 14 1999 - 21:52:51 GMT