cmullaparthi

Following is a conversation I had with my 5 year old son.

Son: Daddy, why do people exist?

Me: I don't know. We just do.

Son: Someone must know.

Me: No one really knows why. A lot of people are trying to find out, but no one has found the answer.

Son: I bet Google does. All you do is go to Google and type in the question.

Me: !! But how does Google know !!

Son: That's because God told Google.

At this point I thought of explaining how search engines work to him, but it was so funny that I fell apart laughing.

My daughter who is in primary school has an assignment to write a program to calculate the dates of Easter for any given year. A programming language to use has not been specified. What language should I teach her to use? She's got three weeks.

As a bonus, it will be extremely cool if it is something which she can take into school on a USB stick and actually run a demo without having to install anything on the school machines. All her school machines are Windows machines.