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My 4yo daughter can set the foreground and background colors in emacs on her own (the commands are written out in her notebook, but not in any particular order)
by pseut 13y ago
My 4yo daughter can set the foreground and background colors in emacs on her own (the commands are written out in her notebook, but not in any particular order). We were both really proud the first time she pulled it off.
a text editor with bright colors and large fonts is thousands of times better than magnetic letters.
- wtbob 13y ago> My 4yo daughter can set the foreground and background colors in emacs You, sir, win! More seriously, has she learnt how to read and type? Or does she like playing with letters on the screen?
- pseut 13y agoShe types by hunt and peck. The was a while where I'd have to help her find the "f" key, etc., but that's pretty rare now. She has a notebook with some words spelled out in it (names mostly: "Cinderella," "Ariel," "Mommy,"...) and she'll type them in and read them, and I'll usually write her some sort of message on the screen when we set it up. We started doing this last fall IIRC and she'd either play with letters or we'd use commands and type words in together. There was a lot of filling the screen with "*" to make a snowstorm. She's somewhat more independent now but there's still a lot of running back and forth and consultation. She likes Webdings a lot too.
- whatusername 13y agoawesome. :) Thanks for sharing!
- pseut 13y agoForgot to mention the most important part: I let her pick the font and we set the point size to 72 (the max). Large letters help.