Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (180 mails)

[Gary Stainburn <gary.stainburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

VERY bad idea, what with the polutants in the atmosphere, and the police 
going about hitting people.

Not to mention the sun - very dangerous - it eats skin.

Keep your children inside - never let them out.

On Thursday 26 July 2001 12:18 pm, Coulton,G wrote:
> Errrr,
>
> Why not let the kids play out and enjoy life at that age?
>
> LOL
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gary Stainburn [mailto:gary.stainburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 26 July 2001 12:02
> > To: Colin McQueen; suse-linux-uk-schools@xxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] PHP4
> >
> >
> > Hi all, here's my 2 euros (cough, cough, !!1 sorry - wash my
> > mouth out)
> >
> > As this thread's started off talking about PHP, how's that
> > for a starter.
> > It'll create some interest with them straight away as the can
> > create web
> > sites which is cool with kids these days.  Then move them to
> > perl, which is
> > (and I know Phil will disagree with me here) a proper
> > programming language.
> >
> > In a lot of ways it's very similar to PHP so moving from one
> > to the other
> > should not vex them too much, but perl is a programming
> > language in the true
> > sense.
> >
> > Gary
> >
> > On Thursday 26 July 2001 11:47 am, Colin McQueen wrote:
> > > <d0ffb29f4a.cmcqueen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > <01072518141706.01302@linux>
> >
> > > In-Reply-To: <01072518141706.01302@linux> X-Organization:
> >
> > The McQueen
> >
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> > > In message <01072518141706.01302@linux>
> > >
> > >           Phil Driscoll <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday 25 July 2001 17:54, Colin McQueen wrote:
> > > > > Yes well ... I'd love to have the time but my kids are
> >
> > expecting to see
> >
> > > > > Dad this summer ;-)
> > > >
> > > > Are they old enough to code :)
> > >
> > > 'fraid not though the two oldest have done quite a bit with the lego
> > > mindstorms stuff.  They are 8 and 10.  The closest they com
> >
> > to Linux is
> >
> > > running a few of the games and they've used Star office if
> >
> > Dad has left
> >
> > > the dual boot PC in SUSE.  They have very little problem tranferring
> > > their skills between Windows/RISC OS/Linux
> > >
> > > Maybe I should start them with something.  What would you recommend?
> > > I'd go for BBC BASIC V simply because I use it a lot but I realise
> > > that's limiting them.  I have trouble converting to C and
> >
> > Java probably
> >
> > > because of my BASIC upbringing.
> >
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