[TriLUG] book for kids on open source philosophy?

[Ron Kelley]

Slight OT, but my son (12yrs old) has started playing and programming in the Roblox (http://www.roblox.com) environment - a lego-style game played in a web browser.  What is really cool is the players have the ability to create their own game the Roblox object-oriented "scripting"  software.  He played for a while until he learned he could tweak some of the environment settings.  From there, he really dived in and started making his own games.  

Very cool for a 12yr old guy!



Thanks,

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Ron Kelley
rkelleyrtp at gmail.com



On Jan 19, 2012, at 12:04 PM, Jack Hill wrote:

> For your own education (and perhaps for the child as it grows older) I recommend _Free Software Free Society_ <http://shop.fsf.org/product/free-software-free-society-2/>. It's a collection of short essays by rms about software freedom.
> 
> 10 years old is old enough to start learning to program. Perhaps set the child up with a GNU/Linux environment, and then find simple, real-world, programs to study (perhaps KDE plasmoids or emacs modes).
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> Perhaps we need to have a TriLUG family day.
> 
> Jack
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