From: Tim Chambers <tbchambers@gmail.com>
To: esr@thyrsus.com, john@yates-sheets.org,
lennart.borgman@gmail.com, ruediger@c-plusplus.de,
swflint@flintfam.org,
"emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
tsdh@gnu.org
Subject: Re: OT: Quick Lego Survey
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 08:34:25 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABoxX=xKn7=7Q0diJZAQ57boO_P4beVweruo5Vtr=2cV=uajsQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
> From: John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>
> Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 21:24:28 -0400
> In-Reply-To: <043EC533-79C5-4C55-9CD1-C5FE9A6CB075@swipnet.se>
> Message-ID: <CAJnXXoioB8XUkK5tn0h7hUwsA=7JDpPWeCzRqTzsppryp71moA@mail.gmail.com>
> Too old to have played with Lego as a child. My equivalents were Lincoln
> Logs, Tinker Toys and especially Erector Set.
I had Lincoln Logs, Tinker Toys, Erector Sets, *and* LEGOs growing up in
the 70's. Also had LEGO gears.
> By the time I became a father Lego had appeared[.] Both my daughter and my
> son received many Lego sets.
My neighbors had more than me, so I vowed when I had kids that there would
be no such thing as "too many LEGOs."
> From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 04:40:12 -0400
> In-Reply-To: <87tx5ackpk.fsf@thinkpad-t440p.tsdh.org>
> Message-ID: <20140818084012.GA21644@thyrsus.com>
> Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>:
>> ... here in Germany that's probably the most common toy after teddy
>> bears, so I wouldn't look for some correlation between playing LEGO and
>> becoming a hacker or engineer.
>
> Interesting. Legos aren't quite that common in th the U.S., and
> *are* commonly thought to be something you give your kid if you want
> to encourage engineering tendencies.
And hacking. My first exposure to programming at MIT was a student
mini-course on Lisp. Many LEGO metaphors were proferred.
I have two sons. They had oodles of LEGOs. Both went to MIT. I'm convinced
LEGOs helped. #1 son studied Aero-Astro, focused on UAS auto-pilot
software and is a Java hacker in Cambridge now. #2 is in his senior year
studying MechE.
next reply other threads:[~2014-08-19 14:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-19 14:34 Tim Chambers [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-08-16 14:13 OT: Quick Lego Survey Samuel W Flint
2014-08-16 14:57 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-08-16 17:00 ` Nic Ferrier
2014-08-16 17:39 ` dhruva
2014-08-16 20:15 ` Jan Djärv
2014-08-17 1:24 ` John Yates
2014-08-17 2:06 ` gottlieb
2014-08-17 13:23 ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2014-08-17 16:49 ` Lennart Borgman
2014-08-17 17:53 ` John Yates
2014-08-18 7:37 ` Tassilo Horn
2014-08-18 8:40 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-08-18 9:12 ` David Kastrup
2014-08-20 4:38 ` Bill Wohler
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