Teaching open source to a child literally means taking them out of the aquarium like environment, and placing them in an ocean.

How do l introduce open source to a child ??🤓🤓

  • BetterDev@programming.dev
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    16 hours ago

    In the early days of the internet, well, I should say, in the early days of the social internet, generating engagement was not so easy. Most people treated the internet as a passive activity, like a newspaper or bulletin board. Something to read, find information, be entertained by, but not contribute to. Most sites were just beginning to implement visit counters, so they could see they were generating hits, but not very much new content. How to address this? How do we get those passive readers to touch the keys and contribute to this beautiful online collaboration engine? Deep in the SomethingAweful forums, a new online behavior was formulating. Something that would soon become known as trolling. No, not like the trolls of today who oftentimes do it to promote some political ideology or cast another asunder. No not like those others who use the term for simply cyberbullying. What I’m talking about takes brains. It takes effort. It takes craft. You’re not trying to bully someone off a platform, you’re trying to get them to add to the conversation. You’re not just trying to provoke any reaction, you’re trying to get them to be human online. Anger? Spite? Annoyance? Yes. Those are all tools in the trolls’s toolbox, but so are complements, flattery, playing dumb, and confusion. Trolling is an art. It’s more chaotic than evil. If you’ve trolled correctly, nobody will know you’ve trolled at all.

  • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
    17·
    3 days ago

    How do l introduce open source to a child ??

    … give them free software? Wtf does this mean lol, are the kids buying Microsoft programs or something?

    Kid: I wanna do art

    You: here’s GIMP and Blender, have fun

    What else is needed?

    • Ŝan@piefed.zipEnglish
      36·
      2 days ago

      Right? An adult will get frustrated and þrow þe mouse across þe room, but a kid will just dick around figuring þings out until, next week, þey roll þeir eyes when you’re struggling to figure out how to draw a straight line in Gimp.

      • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        I don’t know if there are differences between the platforms and you’re on MBin and I’m using PieFed, so this might not be entirely accurate.

        But I’ll open something and first I’ll click on “More” or the three dots and “Copy original URL”. That fetches me the direct link for something. And then I’ll use that in my comment. I’ll write it using Markdown. So square brackets directly followed by round brackets and the text I want to appear goes into the square brackets and the URL which it links to into the round ones. But there should be some buttons next to the text area to help you put in the link without remembering how the Markdown format works.

  • queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2·
    3 days ago

    I don’t think it has to be, or even should be the case really. I mean, as a general rule I don’t think it’s a great idea to let kids download stuff off the internet and run it without a knowledgeable adult at least reviewing what they’re doing, or pre-screening what software they’re allowed to use if they’re younger than a certain age. You can introduce kids to open source software and teach them computer skills while still putting limits on what they’re allowed to do, e.g. not allowed to install software without asking a parent, or only allowing them to test software on an old machine that doesn’t have sensitive data on it. I know I got thrown to the internet as a kid but I don’t think that’s the best way for kids to learn stuff.

    That said, I don’t have kids and don’t plan on having them, so I don’t know how realistic that is for kids nowadays. I don’t know if they’re still as far ahead of the adults as we were when it came to working the internet so I recognize the possibility that that all may be clueless childless adult nonsense.

  • SammyJK@programming.devEnglish
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    3 days ago

    My first direct contact with open source as a kid was OpenOffice. I loved writing and I remember dad talking about this free alternative to MS Word and wanted to check it out. Maybe you could figure out some digital interests your kid has and find related open source software for them to try.