It brought a whole new meaning to minding P's and C's. Whoever said you couldn't learn something while playing with your food?
Binary Carrots
Saturday, March 29th, 2003
This evening at the dinner table, Amy asked
me what a byte was. Knowing that she was not referring to the mouthful
of vegetables I had just taken, and that I first needed to explain what
a bit was, I quickly grabbed a handful of vegetables and began to teach
the girls the binary system -- using peas and carrots for zeros and ones.
Working from there, I was able to tangibly demonstrate bits, nibbles
and bytes.

It brought a whole new meaning to minding P's and C's. Whoever said you couldn't learn something while playing with your food?
It brought a whole new meaning to minding P's and C's. Whoever said you couldn't learn something while playing with your food?
Discussion/Comments (1):
This is soo cool! Thank you for this BIT of information. I have a gifted son who wants to explore how to build a computer. I googled Kids Building Computers and found this article.
My son is 9. So this may come in handy. Keep up the good work!
Posted at 10/07/2009 13:52:59 by Kris
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