The kid’s grandparents got him an Amazon Fire tablet and I loathe the thing. It teaches literally nothing about computing and the games they have for kids are barely even games, and are more focusing on advertising various IPs.
I’d like to get the kid started, as he learns to read, on something that will be more useful than detrimental, let that soft little brain soak up some actual computer science, literacy. I teach him about basic electrical circuits and how that translates to computing, if, and, or, xor, nor, etc. He’s got some familiar with hex (colors) and the concept of binary (on/off).
But what to get for a first computer? I almost want to get him something Linux based and turn him loose. Is there anything like that, that would require him to learn some command prompt and basic computing skills?
Every time and try and Google it, I get a bunch of crap suggestions and ads.
I can relate to this. Zero interest in baseball, basketball, or football, because it was forced on me. I sucked at all of them. Never learned the basic rules. Although now, as a lawyer, one of my favorite things to watch on YouTube is videos of teams experiencing the application of obscure rules that most of the players don’t seem to know. Like a bunch of videos in baseball where something will happen and the fielding team will think it’s a dead ball, but someone on the at-bat team knows the subscure rule and for some reason it’s not a dead ball, and they nonchalantly tap home base and then start celebrating as the other team all walks to the dugout.