Re: How young are the coders...

2005-12-08 Thread Judy Perry
And, my 4-1/2 yr. old twins positively try to climb into my laptop whenever they hear me working on an ABCs stack for them... Judy On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Todd Higgins wrote: > I don't know if this counts, but my son is 5 years old, and he has > enjoyed listening to me read from Dan's book : )

Re: How young are the coders...

2005-12-08 Thread David Bovill
On 7 Dec 2005, at 11:09, Heather Nagey wrote: Interesting info there. A couple of things are possibly skewing perceptions of the average age of the community - youngsters likely can't afford to go to conferences so you probably wouldn't see them there, and I wonder how many of them have the

Re: How young are the coders...

2005-12-07 Thread Monte Goulding
Lol... my girl is 2 and she will very happily bash away at the keyboard. One time she even ripped a few keys off my laptop... Among other things she very much enjoys pressing the reset button when I haven't saved for a while ;-) I don't know if this counts, but my son is 5 years old, and h

Re: How young are the coders...

2005-12-07 Thread Todd Higgins
I don't know if this counts, but my son is 5 years old, and he has enjoyed listening to me read from Dan's book : ) -- Todd Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Dec 7, 2005, at 9:28 AM, David Burgun wrote: >she was intrigued with the possibility of making the CEO into a flying pig that circled th

Re: How young are the coders...

2005-12-07 Thread David Burgun
>she was intrigued with the possibility of making the CEO into a flying pig that circled the window (I was testing Arcade Engine at the time). I would love to see that stack! :-) Speaking for germany, I know that quite a few of the folks that hang around at revolutionboard.de are far younger

Re: How young are the coders...

2005-12-07 Thread Malte Brill
>she was intrigued with the >possibility of making the CEO into a flying pig that circled the window >(I was testing Arcade Engine at the time). I would love to see that stack! :-) Speaking for germany, I know that quite a few of the folks that hang around at revolutionboard.de are far younger

Re: How young are the coders...

2005-12-07 Thread David Burgun
Hi, I am currently teaching my Friends Son Alex (11) the wonders of RunRev! All the Best Dave Interesting info there. A couple of things are possibly skewing perceptions of the average age of the community - youngsters likely can't afford to go to conferences so you probably wouldn't see them

How young are the coders...

2005-12-07 Thread Heather Nagey
Interesting info there. A couple of things are possibly skewing perceptions of the average age of the community - youngsters likely can't afford to go to conferences so you probably wouldn't see them there, and I wonder how many of them have the dedication to wade through and participate in thi