Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "3899jk" <3899jk@gmail.com> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Which Books Can You Recommend For Learning Computer Programming? Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 20:11:53 +1000 Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <1169926522.482082008.403209.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org><1461964954.482099422.669856.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org><5fputc-ia3.ln1@sambook.reistad.name> <20160415170944.524b66b6c9836c29865239ec@eircom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 4WTqeMQdG9CviwPCWSwHgQItjBtdmENmhNuRcJdl/8n1N7nZM= Cancel-Lock: sha1:6gscZHOh0vFbKja23/4P5dhZv2w= In-Reply-To: <20160415170944.524b66b6c9836c29865239ec@eircom.net> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:162791 "Ahem A Rivet's Shot" wrote in message news:20160415170944.524b66b6c9836c29865239ec@eircom.net... > On Fri, 15 Apr 2016 11:00:35 -0400 > Walter Bushell wrote: > >> In article , >> "J. Clarke" wrote: >> >> > No, helicopter parenting and parental fear of the big bad world does >> > that. I suspect that in the modern world my parents would have been >> > arrested for letting me do the sorts of things that I and my friends >> > did. I suspect that if they knew, _they_ would have been horrified. >> >> Good thing they didn't find out then. Small children need to do things >> that would horrify there parents for normal development. Many adults >> completely forget their childhood, apparently. > > Either that or they remember it, wonder how they ever survived > unmaimed and become determined to ensure that their children never take > such risks. Not even possible with that last. Mate of mine's #1 son ended up with a broken arm after showing off to his mates riding his bike along the top of a waist height brick wall in the school in the school holidays.