<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> This is most cool! I will point out however, that $50 can buy a used Dell that will run circles around this unit, with the possible exception of graphics. Take some Linux or BSD to put on it and expose the kid to a non-windows os, and then the snake wrangling begins. ;-) With that you have more storage, etc. Used lower end hardware is so cheap these days that it's close to free. At the Recyclerama event in Lansing last week, I saw dozens of Dells and things that would have been ripe for exactly this. *sigh* --STeve Andre' On 04/21/12 20:39, Don Bosman wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:4F935329.9010002@msu.edu" type="cite"> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <h2>Snake Wrangling for Kids</h2> <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.briggs.net.nz/snake-wrangling-for-kids.html">http://www.briggs.net.nz/snake-wrangling-for-kids.html</a> Learning to Program with Python. Copyright (C) 2007. All Rights Reserved. "Snake Wrangling for Kids" is a printable electronic book, for children 8 years and older, who would like to learn computer programming. It covers the very basics of programming, and uses the <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.python.org">Python</a> 3 programming language to teach the concepts. There are 3 different versions of the book (one for Mac, one for Linux and one for Windows), and the printable 1.4MB PDFs can be downloaded from the Google Code project for free (zipped size is about 1MB): <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://code.google.com/p/swfk/downloads/list">http://code.google.com/p/swfk/downloads/list</a> There have been over 40,000 downloads, as of early 2012. NOTE: If you want to use Python 2, download version <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://code.google.com/p/swfk/downloads/list?can=2&q=0.7.2&colspec=Filename+Summary+Uploaded+Size+DownloadCount">0.7.2</a>. Please note: this is a self-edited (obviously unpublished) manuscript (with help/feedback from the Python community), and as such may not be quite as polished as I would like. Feedback is welcome, and I'll update the book whenever necessary. If your kids are having trouble understanding something, please let me know, and I'll use the feedback to hopefully make improvements. The original combined version (including all 3 operating systems) of the book can still be found <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://code.google.com/p/swfk/downloads/list?can=4&q=&colspec=Filename+Summary+Uploaded+Size+DownloadCount">here</a>. <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> <pre wrap="">_______________________________________________ linux-user mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>