recently we also had a case where some participated more because of the tutor than because of the programme… but even they did learn to program a lego mindstorms bot in C (even if not that deep) and went home happy (with the programme and the tutor… they have enough play breaks…)
I just wish we had had something like this when I was younger
okay I'm really curious now. One of my friends (over in Argentina... I'm in Australia lol) is kinda young, and he was actually interested in learning pygame. I think this kind of environment would be perfect for him... do you ever do stuff over the 'Net?
I was just curious because this is the first time I've really ever heard of an environment where young kids are encouraged to grow and learn, and realize what they're capable of
we did have the occasional delegation in other countries, and the kids did the English thing well (I couldn’t really speak English until way past school)
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most of our tutors already know the stuff and bring it with them (sometimes they even know stuff we don’t, e.g. we had someone teaching a Blender workshop)
we’re being asked to expand into all directions and even 'fork off' the idea into associations in other countries, so we’re a bit stretched thin wrt. resources, but we’re trying to at least get most of the website translated into English soonish
we scrape eMail and postal addresses of all schools from the official servers, then spam them ;)
by now, word of mouth too (apparently we rock)
initially, much smaller: kids’ programme at FrOSCon (some local OSS conference), later also at other conferences in .de
I can definitely understand the idea of forking, this is awesome. I'll certainly keep an occasional eye on the website and check back... and the email idea FTW. :P
the parents are the hard part… they have to learn things like, their kids’ mail is private (though the parents are, of course, allowed to decide with whom they communicate)
ahaha debugging the family... that's good to hear. and, also great to hear you're trying to get this stuff to low-income families, that's doubly awesome too (can definitely relate to that)
try being a part of a roughly 4-adult 2-kid organisation team keeping 75+ kids in sight from friday noon till sunday evening, complete with train drives between location and hostel
now I can occasionally do stuff during work (we’re somewhat an OSS company, and my employer gives rooms to that society so I have short ways when switching hats)
sometimes in the evening when I’m not too beat
weekends too of course, but mostly long nights (and regrets in the morning)
(though can’t do without them in business life, so I stuck with DE layout until I had custom keyboard layout for all OSes I have to deal with – MS released the Keyboard Layout Creator about a decade ago)
@i336_ well I keep my GW-BASIC manual handy (and have gwbasic as alternative nick on IRC), but recently someone ported mksh to OS/2 so I had to add those keybindings to edit.c
they were who discovered this problem first, as they got the .Xmodmap magic from me but tracked Debian testing (while I was still on BSD at home, ancient Kubuntu at work – back then, forced, now I run Debian sid/x32 at work by myself)
hmm. I think I'm using a different terminfo file on here. I'm SURE this worked on Slackware...
I was trying the VT102 emulator (REAL emulator - take a look at the end of the file) from cvs.schmorp.de/vt102 and trying to get it to recognize the Fn keys in htop
OpenBSD docs say they used to switch BS/Del between ^H/^? and ^?/^[[3~ every two releases until they settled, but luckily, that was before I started using it
the current way is beneficial
e.g. while a program is running and you already type the next command for the shell
I've written an answer today and I'm not sure if it would fit the documentation. The mechanics of python with slicing are pretty good documented for simple cases but almost non-existant for more complex operations (or I couldn't find them). Would that make a good topic aka complex-customized-slicing or is that probably to deep for Documentation?
@MSeifert I assume he means the wants to be able to follow a topic to get notifications of changes and things like that.
I've been unable to propose a new tag. Has anyone else experienced that? I click the button to propose one, type the name in the dialog box, press enter, then nothing happens.
Hi all, thanks for the invite. Can anyone help me to find a clear explanation of the 'purpose' of the Documentation stack exchange? I'm finding it a little hard to create topics and add information as I feel I'm duplicating documentation elsewhere on the web.
don't duplicate: improve and if you can't don't document it here. At least that's how I manage it. But it's up to us what comes into the documentation. So feel free to put in what you like. Everything needs to be approved and can be deleted later, so in the long term only the useful information stays (hopefully).
Great, thanks @MSeifert @KurtisBeavers. There are still a lot of posts, especially in the Ruby section, that outline existing documentation (which you could consider duplicates, in a sense). For example 'Hello World' examples printing to stdout, which you can find on many other sites around the web.
