Wednesday, December 03, 2008 10:21 AM
Jim Glass
Pedro the Developer
Lucido, a CRM developer now on a new team sends this nice Holiday update about his family. :o)
Noble colleagues,
Some time ago some of Pedro’s colleagues doubted that games and anything that happens in a computer is man-made. (Pedro is my older son, 9 years old). In their concept, all software and games “just exist”. Pedro insisted that “my daddy writes games and other stuff for computers”, but his colleagues mocked him. So he wanted to learn to program to show his colleagues that he’s right.
I got the Scratch programming environment (http://scratch.mit.edu), taught him the rudiments of programming (if and loop) plus angles, random numbers and Cartesian geometry. I have never seen him so interested in learning something.
After 1 week, here’s the result: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKexbuyZgck
Thanks for your attention,
Lucidio
Very cool. Teaching kids to program should be fun like this.
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About Jim Glass
As the Microsoft Dynamics CRM UX site manager, I am a passionate advocate for our customers, especially in the areas of CRM, Microsoft Dynamics, small business, and business web sites.
After twenty years in the U.S. Army Engineer Corps, I started at Microsoft as a contractor on the newly formed NT DDK team in 92. I then moved to the Trolls, a production team for the Windows SDK and DDK teams. I lead the WBEM team which became the WMI SDK team. My last seven years has been spent as the Visual Studio SDK doc. manager.
In my spare time I can be found tutoring my grandkids, playing the saxophone (soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone), playing summer-league basketball, and moderating the Sax On The Web forum.
