#35 Teaching a Toddler
I have a one-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Grace. She has known for some time now that typing on the computer is something that Daddy does for fun.
Whenever I'm writing, she will come over to me, smile sweetly, climb up on my lap, and pound the heck out of the keyboard. (Thank God for xlock and early bedtimes.)
To help her learn how to use a computer, I wrote a simple Perl script that displays a picture and plays a sound whenever a key is pressed. For example, press B and a picture of a bee appears as the word bee is spoken. Press C and a cow appears, D and a dog appears, and so on.
It quickly became apparent that ...
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