As a engineer and parent that got a lot of these awful $SCIENCE subject related books as gifts. I'm sure you can find a similar one.
But I have yet to get one that wasn't just a horribly written kids book. Like, I use to think writing a kids book was a joke.
It's extremely difficult to find books that are eye catching enough for a child, interesting enough for a parent to WANT to read, and has memorable parts so the kid WANTS to read it.
The $SCIENCE topic books for kids are all just boring art, almost all the pages either look the same (when they try to tell an actual story) OR they are like reading a dictionary where no page is actually related.
None of them are filled with puns for parents either. I don't get it. That's low hanging fruit.
Maybe I've gotten bad ones. But holy shit. Give a Doctor Seuss book to me any day.
If you want to buy a $SCIENCE related joke gift to one of your friends. Give the kid a T-shirt. The books are awful.
Woa! Does that mean you've already covered the basics of C? If they ever happen to get bored, try some elementary boolean logic, binary arithmetic or electricity.
NO WAY! They've got an LFS one now?!? My son got a bunch of them for his baby shower two years ago, and he's been like super into them since he was like 15-18 months old. I highly recommend Bayesian Statistics; it explains the concept more clearly than any stats or data science class I've taken. His favorites are Optical Physics (because he's into rainbows), Bayesian Statistics (because he likes cookies), and Quantum Computing (because he likes the word "data", probably because he hears me say it in work meetings).
Should have known from the fact that the spine says "Quantum Entanglement". This is the set my son was given. Looks like he actually has published a few more since then, but nothing Linux-related (yet). We love them!
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jobbies@lemmy.zip · 58 pts · 84d
"...printers are files too, what the fuck????"
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 31 pts · 83d
files composed of pure, possibly sentient, evil.
dankm@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 83d
That randomly catch fire.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 83d
users are folders, if Linux could turn user into files we... isn't that the plot of the tron?
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 83d
What blew my mind the most was the mouse and monitors were files.
Rooster326@programming.dev · 2 pts · 83d
It's files all the way down
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 80d
Opposed to what?
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 82d
Even DOS used files for printers.
PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social · 28 pts · 83d
I am immensely disappointed that this isn't a real book.
wheezy@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 83d
As a engineer and parent that got a lot of these awful $SCIENCE subject related books as gifts. I'm sure you can find a similar one.
But I have yet to get one that wasn't just a horribly written kids book. Like, I use to think writing a kids book was a joke.
It's extremely difficult to find books that are eye catching enough for a child, interesting enough for a parent to WANT to read, and has memorable parts so the kid WANTS to read it.
The $SCIENCE topic books for kids are all just boring art, almost all the pages either look the same (when they try to tell an actual story) OR they are like reading a dictionary where no page is actually related.
None of them are filled with puns for parents either. I don't get it. That's low hanging fruit.
Maybe I've gotten bad ones. But holy shit. Give a Doctor Seuss book to me any day.
If you want to buy a $SCIENCE related joke gift to one of your friends. Give the kid a T-shirt. The books are awful.
akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone · 23 pts · 84d
Woa! Does that mean you've already covered the basics of C? If they ever happen to get bored, try some elementary boolean logic, binary arithmetic or electricity.
epicshepich@programming.dev · 21 pts · 84d
NO WAY! They've got an LFS one now?!? My son got a bunch of them for his baby shower two years ago, and he's been like super into them since he was like 15-18 months old. I highly recommend Bayesian Statistics; it explains the concept more clearly than any stats or data science class I've taken. His favorites are Optical Physics (because he's into rainbows), Bayesian Statistics (because he likes cookies), and Quantum Computing (because he likes the word "data", probably because he hears me say it in work meetings).
cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 83d
This is actually photoshopped and just a meme. But I am amazed that those books you mentioned apparently seem to be real.
epicshepich@programming.dev · 3 pts · 83d
Should have known from the fact that the spine says "Quantum Entanglement". This is the set my son was given. Looks like he actually has published a few more since then, but nothing Linux-related (yet). We love them!
kamenlady@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 83d
Translation:
work meetings = breakfast or lunch
epicshepich@programming.dev · 3 pts · 83d
I do have brunch with my kids every day, but why would I say "data" during it? We're still on Spock.
Siethron@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 84d
See that look on the baby's face, pure terror. The correct response.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 83d
That look. Mom's been letting him use MacOS.
Kaligalis@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 83d
Baby is like "I'm not maintaining shit without proper centralized package management. Gimme Gentoo!"
andyburke@fedia.io · 10 pts · 84d
My kids all daily drive linux. I don't treat it like it's weird or special. It's just the preferred OS of the house.
🤷♂️
wltr@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 83d
My man! My family just has no say in what OS we’re having at home.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 83d
Let us just briefly recapitulate the 27 most important compiler flags for 32bit x86 architectures.
Geobloke@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 83d
Babies trying to figure how to get adopted
cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 83d
Into a BSD home?
ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 83d
I'm calling Child Services.
Eternal192@anarchist.nexus · 5 pts · 83d
That kid is getting wrinkles on his brain just from the smell of the book.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 84d
That kid is gonna be such a homeschooler.
TheGingerNut@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 83d
Awwww! cutiepie!
wizzkidd@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 84d
Amen!! Partner.
hoohoohoot@fedinsfw.app · 1 pts · 65d