> On Jun 20, 2015, at 15:00, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove > <captainkirk...@gmail.com> wrote: > So how do we make a 14 year old actually get interested in real world > things as opposed to Minecraft? I think that old minicomputers would > help get kids more interested in real world things, since the > instruction set architecture of an '8, '11, or NOVA are much easier to > work with then x86-64.
I think that will depend strongly on the individual kid in question, who might view the minicomputer either as a dusty obsolete boring thing, or a fascinating machine unlike anything (s)he presently takes for granted. If you have a kid and a minicomputer, and your kid shows any interest in that dusty old box, then run with it. If not, then find something else that catches their interest in a way that can trick them into learning to think creatively and solve problems. The end result is much more important than how you get there. -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X <n...@nf6x.net> http://www.nf6x.net/
