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[ann_leckie]

Paidhi Girl has been working with Scratch. She found a tab called "variables" and wondered what that meant and how to use it. I tried to explain the idea as best I could, but it was entirely opaque to her. "You play with it," I told her finally. "Look at the samples that came with Scratch. You'll figure it out."

Not long afterwards:

Paidhi Girl:"I've figured out what the variables do in Scratch!"

Me: "Good! I knew you'd do it."

Paidhi Boy: "What's a variable?"

Paidhi Girl: "Oh, it's this thing in Scratch."



(So we talked about variables a bit. It made a lot more sense to her this time around.)

Comments

[rachel-swirsky.livejournal.com]

Ha! I remember when my older brother Robert taught me about variables. I grasped quickly that it meant you could replace a number with a letter, and then deicded that it would be cooler if you could replace a number with an image, and started drawing in little hearts and stars and angels to replace numbers.

I think I was about five. Further, I think Robert was annoyed.

[rachel-swirsky.livejournal.com]

Copyright notice on previous comment: This comment should not be replicated without the express permission of her author, her elder brother, and at least five numbers that have been replaced with angels.

[ann-leckie.livejournal.com]

So, do you have a copyright notice for your copyright notice? You really ought to, someone might not understand otherwise.

(It's been a long day. When I first read your notice, I wasn't sure if you meant < or

[rachel-swirsky.livejournal.com]

" someone might not understand otherwise."

Hee!