I got my 5 yo daughter a Pi and she's been playing around on Scratch (and typing) and it's surprising how quickly they pick this stuff up. She guess doing a minus number would move a sprite in the opposite direction!
I was experimenting writing libraries in C++ (I prefer a more OO interface to things) so I created an AnologLed and DigitalLed class and showed my daughter in the code how I made a red LED come on and she proceeded to make the orange and blue ones come on too.
> She guess doing a minus number would move a sprite in
> the opposite direction!
I'm curious how that is possible. Did she just move a slider towards the negative range? Randomly guess it? Does she have a notion of continuity past zero?
I typed in the number and prefixed it with I am putting a funny symbol before, and said they were before zero and that normal numbers had a plus in front but it's hidden normally, then I asked which way do you think this will go and she pointed left.
I was experimenting writing libraries in C++ (I prefer a more OO interface to things) so I created an AnologLed and DigitalLed class and showed my daughter in the code how I made a red LED come on and she proceeded to make the orange and blue ones come on too.
This stuff it the literacy of the 21st century.