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u can get them a ps4 or xbox and let them play games...or give them their own computers with VR sets .... i'm sure they will love it...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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I got this a few weeks ago: Homepage | Minecraft: Education Edition[^]
To be honest didn't checked yet...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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If they survive x86 assembly, they will be ready for the real wörld!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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I recommend checking out Zachtronics' puzzle games, they're very much programming in disguise. I'd start with Infinifactory as it's learning curve is the least steep. They're all hard and great fun.
Depending on the kids' history with games and computers they might get into the harder ones (like Shenzhen I/O and TIS100).
Here's an article on this [^]
But keep in mind - quote :
Sometimes people mention SpaceChem as a good game to introduce people to programming. I would not recommend that at all because an introductory programming course is laughably easy in comparison. If anything, it is a game you may want to introduce a subset of programmers to.
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Maybe in a few years. 
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If you have an old android phone or tablet (rooted Nook?) lying around, check out MIT App Inventor.
Similar paradigm to Scratch, but you can run your own apps on your phone/tablet.
iOS version in beta!
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Don't know what level they are at, but my son uses this at school (and has done Scratch too):
https://www.khanacademy.org/
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There appear to be some Chinese spam bots spewing article submissions. Click that report button.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Done, done, done, done, done, done, done, done, done, done, done, done, done and done!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Wow, when I posted this about an hour ago there were fifteen articles waiting, fourteen of which were the same spam. Since that time, fifteen more have popped up. Yikes.
Curiously, they are from a different batch of users now.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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and don't forget to report the spammers too 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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... Samsung letting a designer go on stage with a 43" vertical TV that costs $16k because millennials
Words fail me.
(and if I posted enough giant vomit's to express my disdain - a few thousand might do - I'd deserve the LARTing Maunder would hand out for breaking the page.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Samsung should market this as the Classical TV, the target market being those who want to watch TV while reclining at their Roman-style banquets.
An optional extra would be a fiddle. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Quote: Samsung says the TV comes with NFC pairing and a "simple mirroring function" to get your smartphone videos on the TV. Like Samsung's other TVs, this has an ambient mode that can display images, photos, clocks, and more when not in use.
First thought - back in the good old days, the thing you most wanted was a bigger monitor. Then the phones brought you to a new world of squinting or partial screen views (as if scrolling wasn't bad enough). So this is designed to be a 43" phone face (?) !
Second thought - well, their $2000 phone's a bust - so maybe they can use their new-found customer confidence to sell you a $16000 version of a cell-phone.
So - I just can't wait until the foldable version of this comes out!
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W∴ Balboos wrote: So - I just can't wait until the foldable version of this comes out!
LG scooped them with a TV that rolls up the reverse of a projector screen. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Hmmm - haven't seen that.
But here is my vision . . . think Origami . . . it folds up into a decorative centerpiece when not in use, or even fits in one's (large) pocket.
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I'll wait for the motorized version - I'm not getting off the couch to rotate the TV AGAIN.
That is, assuming it's IoT so I can rotate it while I'm driving home in my Samsung Self Crashing Driving Hover Car.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I remember my brothers first Apple computer he used to graphics and page-design for pre-print... It had a vertical monitor to get close to the page as much as possible...
But how exactly movies?
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Quote: Update 2: Seems like we have hashed it out in the comments, "18.9 million won" is a Google translate bug and the real price is 1.89 million won, or $1,600. Thanks to Fritzr for the lesson in Korean.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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The concept would be no less moronic at $0.16 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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