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[–] RaVeNLoRD 0 points 14 points (+14|-0) ago  (edited ago)

This is way too advanced for someone 2 or 3 years old.

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[–] KILLtheRATS ago 

No way. Sure, they won't retain everything, but it exposes them to the vocabulary. Next time the will learn more. Next time they will be able to grasp more of the concept, because they will understand the vocabulary.

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[–] SexMachine [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I taught them both sign language before they could speak. They forgot all about it by now, but I've read that it helps their brains develop.

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[–] SexMachine [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

The whole conversation started from one of my kids picking up this antique camera. I explained to them that it used film that had to be processed using chemical and the images would be printed to paper.

"It couldn't record video?"

No. Our cameras now' days store everything digitally. Do you know what that means?

Each finger is a digit, so how many digits do you have?

10

Well computers use two digits - 1 and 0

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[–] VooDooBug 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

Bad parent? You have to be kidding me!! You are awesome! You are an excellent parent!

Everyone should teach their kids to be like what Robert Heinlein said, "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.".

They all have to start somewhere. :-)

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[–] prairie ago  (edited ago)

Tomorrow, two's complement.

The trick is to think of it like normal binary, merely with the weight of the highest bit negated, e.g. for a byte -128, 64, 32, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1 are the weights. So -1 is -128 + the rest of the bits (which total 127).

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[–] KILLtheRATS 1 point 1 point (+2|-1) ago 

It's good the shock the endocrine system every once in a while. Everynight of this would be a problem.

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[–] Dkeere 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

No. I made my 8 year old stay up late and study the battle of Stamford Bridge, then write me a couple of sentences on it. No particular reason other than thinking he would like reading about a lone viking holding a bridge against an army and because I wanted him to learn how to provide sources. I'm planning on making him do this with a couple of different subjects that he can find easily online or in my library so that he grasps the concept of where the information comes from and how to basically cite a source, then let him pick a historical subject to study himself and write a short paper on for his homeschool history project.

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[–] 9949683? ago 

Only if they didn't learn something.

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[–] Infowarrior420 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

You're an amazing parent, don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

Literally just a few moments before I saw this thread I thought to myself, that if I ever have children I'll make sure to expose them to technology at a very early age and allow them complete access to the material needed for learning computer science etc I was thinking about how when I was growing up, my mom's ex would have tech but he wouldn't allow me near that, got me thinking that if a person truly cared about technology they would want their children to be part of that. My obaa had a desktop she would let me use though, even if I messed things up, so I'll give her that.

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