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I find it strange how you’re so proud that you’re teaching them a very niche - and outside system administration and programming obsolete - way of interacting w

by blub 4y ago

I find it strange how you’re so proud that you’re teaching them a very niche - and outside system administration and programming obsolete - way of interacting with computers. There are excellent GUIs to learn that will make them more productive with computers and also make them feel like they have some skills that may actually impress other kids instead of making them look weird. These kinds of projects read to me like using the kid as an excuse to build something that the parent thinks is cool. And then it starts to make sense, because you obviously think that the command line is cool and look down on the kids which use touch screens. The bad news for you is that the child’s social circle decides what’s cool, not the parent.

googlryas 4y ago
Parents teach their own niche skills to their children all the time. Which is why for most of history, children entered the field their parents worked in. Cobblers begat cobblers, potters begat potters, etc.
tester457 4y ago
Is cool what really matters? His child being confident in the terminal is a good skill to have, her typing skills will transfer over to her writing for the many essays of highschool, so she'll be productive faster than other kids. > you’re teaching them a very niche - and outside system administration and programming obsolete - way of interacting with computers. Most people are scared of the command line, but she has an edge knowing it. It will open the door to countless productivity benefits in the future, she could automate a lot of her future work in her own creative way that modern guis don't allow. Small cli scripts go a long way in practically any job. Sadly most people still waste hours on spreadsheets and the like when they could spend minutes in many cases.
nonrandomstring 4y ago
> These kinds of projects read to me like using the kid as an excuse to build something that the parent thinks is cool. It is, and that's actually very healthy and okay. It's called co-construction. I'd urge you to read educational theorists like Friere - building motivation through shared interests etc. You're possibly mistaking what I'm doing from actually trying to teach bash and python etc. That would be insane. Those, and the whole vocation of coding, may well be dead by the time she's a teenager. It's about engaged parenting.

by blub 4y ago

googlryas 4y ago

Parents teach their own niche skills to their children all the time. Which is why for most of history, children entered the field their parents worked in. Cobblers begat cobblers, potters begat potters, etc.

tester457 4y ago

Is cool what really matters? His child being confident in the terminal is a good skill to have, her typing skills will transfer over to her writing for the many essays of highschool, so she'll be productive faster than other kids. > you’re teaching them a very niche - and outside system administration and programming obsolete - way of interacting with computers. Most people are scared of the command line, but she has an edge knowing it. It will open the door to countless productivity benefits in the future, she could automate a lot of her future work in her own creative way that modern guis don't allow. Small cli scripts go a long way in practically any job. Sadly most people still waste hours on spreadsheets and the like when they could spend minutes in many cases.

nonrandomstring 4y ago

> These kinds of projects read to me like using the kid as an excuse to build something that the parent thinks is cool. It is, and that's actually very healthy and okay. It's called co-construction. I'd urge you to read educational theorists like Friere - building motivation through shared interests etc. You're possibly mistaking what I'm doing from actually trying to teach bash and python etc. That would be insane. Those, and the whole vocation of coding, may well be dead by the time she's a teenager. It's about engaged parenting.