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Strong agreement. As a kid I learned more programming skills from my HP-48 (a forth/scheme hybrid REPL posing as a calculator) than from the PCs I mostly used f
by bcoates 11y ago
Strong agreement. As a kid I learned more programming skills from my HP-48 (a forth/scheme hybrid REPL posing as a calculator) than from the PCs I mostly used for video games.
- fit2rule 11y agoAs a parent, I'm using my old 8-bit machines to teach my kids computer science. It worked then, and it still works today - in fact, they're becoming more and more the locus of activity, the slow, cranky old 1mhz machines in the retrobattlestation, but they're still getting massive use - the value of them is: no Internet. You only get what you put into it. And my eldest 8-year old is having a blast learning how to make pixel-graphics, old school .. finally a use for his math!