Comments | drdoug: Motivated learning

drdoug

Motivated learning

Feb 27, 2013 20:56

So **FIXME has been getting in to Civilization (the game) recently. Not on his own, but with me and his little brother ( Read more... )

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sushidog February 27 2013, 21:23:36 UTC

Y'know, I'm sure I remember you posting to Jorvick, back in the day, deriving great amusement from naming one of your files "the_whales" so that when you hit ctrl-s, it said "Saving "the_whales". Like father, like son!

drdoug February 27 2013, 21:29:30 UTC

Hah! I hadn't remembered that but it's totally the sort of thing I would've done. (It's making me snigger to myself while typing this.) If it wasn't me I want to steal credit/culpability anyway.

vinaigrettegirl February 27 2013, 22:36:50 UTC

I get the vast worlds of reading. I have no sense of the beauty and power of numbers, mostly, and wish I had.

k425 February 28 2013, 07:19:57 UTC

You can edit Civ? Cor! I'm not even going to attempt to, it just pleases me that it's possible.

drdoug February 28 2013, 10:04:28 UTC

Yes - Civ 4 is pretty editable with just a text editor, and Civ 5 has a set of modding programs that make it even easier. As you'd expect, there's whole communities and wikis devoted to how to do it.

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venta February 28 2013, 10:54:09 UTC

This seems like exactly the kind of thing that ought to be mandatory learning for kids. And you made it fun! What a jolly excellent Dad you are :)