I'm glad to see your emphasis on hardware, both physical (e.g., Lego, etc.) and electronic (e.g., Arduino). I've long thought that computing (and engineering) requires working from the bottom up. The loss of Erector Sets, Gilbert Chemistry Sets, and Heathkits costs us dearly. Computer Science curricula used to build up from the bottom - hardware, machine language, and operating system internals, program languages and compilation/interpretation, and finally move on to algorithms and applications. Today, we seem to start and end with one or two high level languages, leaving in-depth understanding behind. Glad to see you're starting your kids on a more fundamental path - we're going to need people with that depth of knowledge and skills.
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I'm glad to see your emphasis on hardware, both physical (e.g., Lego, etc.) and electronic (e.g., Arduino). I've long thought that computing (and engineering) requires working from the bottom up. The loss of Erector Sets, Gilbert Chemistry Sets, and Heathkits costs us dearly. Computer Science curricula used to build up from the bottom - hardware, machine language, and operating system internals, program languages and compilation/interpretation, and finally move on to algorithms and applications. Today, we seem to start and end with one or two high level languages, leaving in-depth understanding behind. Glad to see you're starting your kids on a more fundamental path - we're going to need people with that depth of knowledge and skills.
I'm a little surprised nobody has mentioned elog - http://midas.psi.ch/elog/