Buddha's dream

7/6/2009 4:13:25 PM #

hahahah I must read that book... it's look funny

wongsableng

9/15/2009 10:50:34 PM #

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2/24/2010 2:14:25 PM #

hahahah I must read that book... it's look funny <a href="http://www.tatiltours.com/tatil-otelleri"; title="tatil otelleri">tatil otelleri</a>

bodrum tatil

3/10/2010 6:11:21 PM #

Thanx Very Good.
Very nice post

Dugun Organizasyon

10/8/2010 10:07:13 AM #

Vrea sa pacaleasca milioane de suporteri” presa, cred ca de ea vorbeai, nu? ca altfel te crezi vreun sondaj, vreun barometru sau

travel house

7/9/2011 11:07:18 PM #

Ok, this is kind of funny. Because the name of your post is "Buddha's Dream" I thought this post was about the religion of Buddhism. When I saw there was a Manga guide, I had to peek at the link to the Amazon page you provided.

Soooo.... it wasn't really a Manga guide to Buddhism after all... Oh well.

By the way; do you think it would be a good book if I want my son to start learning about computer programming? He likes things like Pokemon.

The Buddha Garden

7/11/2011 6:18:28 AM #

That *is* really funny.  Sorry I misled you!  I have not read the book and can't say whether it is a good book to teach programming.  How old is your son?  

>L<

7/29/2011 1:04:11 PM #

Don't worry, you didn't mislead me

My son is 5 and a half and is going to kindergarten at the end of August.

I unfortunately let him play TOO MANY computer games. But I am trying to stop that. So maybe he should start looking at how to program games instead?

Thanks in advance.

The Buddha Garden

7/30/2011 7:00:05 AM #

>L<

8/1/2011 6:31:16 AM #

Sorry about this -- I seem to have wiped out my own comment by making it too long.  I will have to fix this... and do it later today.

>L<

8/1/2011 6:47:06 AM #

Hi again,

My younger son, D, played lots of games at your son's age.  When he was 8 he wrote a BASIC game that was practically a game in words, in which you searched for Jolly Ranchers. The important point is that the games he played were sort of like programming, when you think about it: solve a puzzle, retain and utilize objects that you make or find. (They were Sierra and Lucas games.)  IOW: They weren't just physical skill, logic is always involved.  And now he works for Google (although not as a dev) -- so... not a bad progression .

The important thing about moving from playing a game to programming (of any type) is to make sure that the new activity allows the child a new kind of power.  Assemble items (sprites, objects, shapes, plus actions) together, and then push "Run" or "Go" or "Start"... and watch what you designed actually happen.  This rarely happens in a game, and the sequential nature of it (Do something, cause an effect) is the new power I mean.  Any GUI programming environment will do.

D was obviously young a *long* time ago... and actually I had thought Turtle Logo was a good first choice at that age.  But now maybe I would have chosen Python instead.

There are a lot of websites for kids + programming available and I had chosen some ideas for you here in my original (wiped) post.  Start here http://young-programmers.blogspot.com/ -- check the "where to get software" links in the right column.  And check here wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/NonProgrammers - if you do go for Python, there is apparently something similar to Logo (PythonTurtle) now.

I'll continue this later, I know I came up with some good links, if you like.

>L<

11/27/2010 12:03:50 PM #

Buddha's new nightmare

Buddha's new nightmare

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