I speak from experience, having been a camp counsellor at a computer camp for two summers.
You'll lose the kid's interest unless you're giving them something to do at all points.
Since that's a given, I wouldn't get them to do an install. You might want to walk through a slideshow install or something, but the interminable waiting will get the kids bored and throwing things in a hurry.
Teach them the shell - teach them perl, turn them loose with a bunch of tools at their disposal, and see what they do.
We had one kid test the limits of wordpad, using copy/paste/select-all/repeat. He had a great old time, and actually gathered a crowd, as he was "breaking" things.
Show them how to build a dialectizer in perl - you'll be amazed at the fun they'll have with that.
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Yeah - how are we supposed to know what to think? Aren't we supposed to be using /. to do all of our thinking for us?
That wouldn't be J. Robert Lucky of "Kill Dr. Lucky" fame now, would it?
Won't be serving much else for a while anyway.
official job title.
:)
Certainly can't drop the second "camp"
I didn't go back, because I had graduated :)
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It was a lot of fun, but I also remember the long render waits (We used the Bryce Demo)
Always have something else for the kids to do while waiting
CompuCamp in Saskatoon.
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I was the fun counsellor both years(1998-1999), though I started to get cranky near the end of my second year
I speak from experience, having been a camp counsellor at a computer camp for two summers.
You'll lose the kid's interest unless you're giving them something to do at all points.
Since that's a given, I wouldn't get them to do an install. You might want to walk through a slideshow install or something, but the interminable waiting will get the kids bored and throwing things in a hurry.
Teach them the shell - teach them perl, turn them loose with a bunch of tools at their disposal, and see what they do.
We had one kid test the limits of wordpad, using copy/paste/select-all/repeat. He had a great old time, and actually gathered a crowd, as he was "breaking" things.
Show them how to build a dialectizer in perl - you'll be amazed at the fun they'll have with that.
Keep it fun. End of story.
I thought I turned popups off...