Tectonic: Easing Kids Into Free Software

“By current standards I was already old when I had my own
computer for the first time. It was 1997 and I had already been out
of school for six years. Now, as an IT professional, I often wonder
where I would have been had I been given an early introduction to
computers.

“That is perhaps why I may be overcompensating with my child.
You know what I mean: The guy who wishes he played provincial rugby
so drives his rugby-playing son hard from a young age. My daughter
is just over two years old, and she can launch an application from
a desktop icon, click a button, scroll a list of images to find a
specific one, and follow a pattern on screen with the mouse
cursor…”

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