Comments on: Autograph My Mouse, Please… http://cogdogblog.com/2006/12/08/engelbart/ Alan Levine's space for barking about and playing with technology Fri, 25 May 2012 14:40:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Scott Leslie http://cogdogblog.com/2006/12/08/engelbart/comment-page-1/#comment-13656 Scott Leslie Mon, 11 Dec 2006 17:17:00 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2006/12/08/engelbart/#comment-13656 Lucky Dog! We all owe Englebart a lot. It's funny you mention the story of 7 year olds learning base 2 - on Saturday Calum was sitting around going "2+2 = 4; 4+ 4=8; 8+8=16" and so forth, and I took this as an opportunity to teach him about binary numbers. Putting it in the context of a 'code' really made him take interest. At one point, he, Kaya and I were opening and closing doors all over the house to illustrate how a computer represents a number. Fun! Lucky Dog! We all owe Englebart a lot.

It’s funny you mention the story of 7 year olds learning base 2 – on Saturday Calum was sitting around going “2+2 = 4; 4+ 4=8; 8+8=16″ and so forth, and I took this as an opportunity to teach him about binary numbers. Putting it in the context of a ‘code’ really made him take interest. At one point, he, Kaya and I were opening and closing doors all over the house to illustrate how a computer represents a number. Fun!

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