""" no, it is fun. you're just not doing it right """ --- me, as to my son, shortly after he attempted to play

🌱 Sprout Garden 🌱

Fisher Price :: My First IDE

Connect the Spring to the Harvest.

The goal is to transport the seed and transform it to the desired shape and colour along the way.

Teach them middleware while they're still young, stateless is more than a state of mind

#computingforlittles

#programming #computingforlittles #wanderland #yamlislove #yamlislife

a lot of fun, is what it is

"""
The fuck is this?
"""
--- my kids, as to me, after I mistakenly thought the fun I'm having was universal and replaced all of their tablet games with what the fuck this is

#programming #computingforlittles

neurons grow in a petri dish my son can beat this level by driving around the gates

neurons can beat this level by driving around the gates nothing useful was done

🛋️🤔

Y'all keep exploring the substrate and getting confused why it doesn't resolve.

The game is no fun if there aren't any constraints

#philosophy #physics #engineering #computingforlittles

solvable till Daddy gets at it

this isn't a game, it's a tech demo

it's just so wiggly

this is a game

🌱 Sprout Garden 🌱

Y'all

Sprout Garden y'all

Sprout Garden got a Maze button y'all

I think 56% is nice this time of year 🗓️

#education #computingforlittles #sproutgarden

graeme fawcett (@graeme@tech.lgbt) Attached: 1 image 🌱 Sprout Garden 🌱 🎺 Saddest Trombone... I used to have coworkers stunned by how little i would look at my work before I ran it. Make a change, commit and push. Trigger a build "You're not even going to look at it?" ... [when your work is pipelines, Jenkins is your compiler... what, you guys don't user your compiler to check for typos?] #devops #computingforlittles #programming #education #failfastismorefun

[when your work is pipelines, Jenkins is your compiler... what, you guys don't user your compiler to check for typos?]

#devops #computingforlittles #programming #education #failfastismorefunVideo: https://tech.lgbt/@graeme/115761129980514734

wiggly and multiple possible outcomes

That should do.

I'll play test it first and then fix rendering

#computingforlittles #education #thisishowyougamifysomething

Now to make this into a true BOSS LEVEL <|:o(::)>

#programming #education #engineering #computingforlittles

#devops #whyisthisdevops #iwishmypipelineslookedlikethat #minedo #programming #computingforlittles #education

graeme fawcett (@graeme@tech.lgbt) Attached: 1 image 🌱 Sprout Garden 🌱 By now he should be used to the mechanics of the thing. The identity arrows progress without transformation The cyclers change the shape of the thing: - colour : red > green > yellow > blue - shape : cicle > square > triangle > star By now we've learned about function, now it's time for composition. How you construct something within the constraints is important. There are often hidden constraints in how a tool is used. For example, a cycler is configured to pass through a sprout to its cardinally opposite edge. [we teach our littles to RTFM at a young age in this house] The guide says a Grower seeds in all directions and sprouts as a pass through. This precludes its use in the corners as shown below. One must teach constraints before one can teach constraint based thinking. We cannot being our journey until we have reached the a base camp of understanding. #curwen #pianoforte #computingforlittles #education #programming

We cannot being our journey until we have reached the a base camp of understanding.

#curwen #pianoforte #computingforlittles #education #programmingVideo: https://tech.lgbt/@graeme/115760985544212011

There's a certain beauty in the symmetry

#computingforlittles #humantools

Video: https://tech.lgbt/@graeme/115760887993949146

[there's a 4 step shape sequence that cycles. the level requires you to cycle through plus take one more step. the full cycle is guaranteed by the locked plots, so he only needs to work out that one additional transformer is required]

#engineering #programming #computingforlittles #education

graeme fawcett (@graeme@tech.lgbt) Attached: 1 image 🌱 Sprout Garden 🌱 This is very relaxing. It's like colouring Except there's only one colour, and it's rock. But then you get to play with it. Making shapes out of A1:B4 rectangles, and then drawing transforms through it Maybe that's just my idea of a good time Is it yours? There's always room for more in #wanderland. We make space for all here #programming #education #computingforlittles #middlewareforyourmind

Is it yours? There's always room for more in #wanderland . We make space for all here

#programming #education #computingforlittles #middlewareforyourmindVideo: https://tech.lgbt/@graeme/115760762444143560

If the game provides the player a set of tools and no constraints, that's not a game but a sandbox. Also a useful tool, but not at this stage of the education. And only as a little treat on Fridays, if we've been good

#programming #education #computingforlittles

Shadowlands. Season 1, Episode 5.

"They arrive and collapse in a fit of giggles realizing that having the rules has made the game more fun."

Daddy's got layers man

#programming #teaching #computingforlittles #composingthought

#programming #teaching #computingforlittles #neurodivergent #kiND #neuroawesome

Does it matter if you're collecting the shape of a sprout, the verb, subject and object or a sentence or a build artifact and its associated infrastructure resources along the way?

#programming #language #computingforlittles #spatiallearning #contextiseverything

🌱 Sprout Garden 🌱

Y'all it's adorable

#programming #teaching #computingforlittles

Video: https://tech.lgbt/@graeme/115759547658484371

graeme fawcett (@graeme@tech.lgbt) Attached: 1 image 🌱 Sprout Garden 🌱 Y'all isn't it adorable? [he's going to keep saying that isn't he] It's got a level editor yo... Daddy embedded the konami code ^^vv<><>ba Export the updated JSON. I have a feeling it won't be long before we're just editing the JSON raw, it looks lovely on its own. This is going to be a fun way to spend a slightly sickly Sunday afternoon. Developing a curriculum to teach programming from spatially oriented first principles, through the medium of play. [the for loop is a racetrack you build to race the car you've built through composition, a blue rectangle and four red circles] Brain training for a functor factory mind. I mean, it's just middleware after all #programming #teaching #computingforlittles #thewayitshouldbe

#programming #teaching #computingforlittles #thewayitshouldbeVideo: https://tech.lgbt/@graeme/115759496514927650

Level 1 - an introduction to pathing

🌱 Sprout Garden 🌱

Y'all, isn't it adorable?

Fisher Price My First Spatial Computing IDE

New feature drop:

Users! ... I mean Rocks!

[now why would he go model users as rocks?]

Constraints my dear 🪿 constraints, why else?

#teaching #programming #computingforlittles