December 12, 2007

The OLPC is child's play

The BBC News website has a great story about a child's first experience with the OLPC laptop.

Reminds me of my family's first home computer when I was at the tender age of 11-12. That was almost 30 years ago so obviously we weren't discovering the Internet, but I was very quick to pick up on programming with no instruction at all. Kids just figure these things out and often even things that no one had anticipated. Does this surprise anyone?

Posted by thay0012 at December 12, 2007 03:20 PM
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My first computer was the Apple II e. Man I loved that machine. And at school we learned basic programming on it using a program called "Logo". Where you take a turtle and make it draw cool pictures by programing its steps. It was a fantastic introduction to computers as a child.

Posted by: Aoleon at April 13, 2008 08:03 AM
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