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"Having animals and colorful bricks is okay, so long as we're not in conflict with what is actually fun about w that is being taught here..." The concept of 'f
by fsloth 10y ago
"Having animals and colorful bricks is okay, so long as we're not in conflict with what is actually fun about w
that is being taught here..."
The concept of 'fun' is highly personal. Surely you are not suggesting there is only one way to enjoy using a computer :)
"Programming is fun because we can control the machine, and make it do things... magically, at our whim, with the right combination of instructions."
I think you are creating a value statement that is not universally true. My son enjoys programming because he can draw himself a character and the program the character to respond to key presses. The machine between him and the program is irrelevant to him.
- unabst 10y ago"draw himself a character and the program the character to respond to key presses." Except, don't you see that that's him controlling the machine and making it do things magically at his whim with the right combination of instructions? The statement I made may not be universal, but you provided an example, not a counterexample, which infers you may not have well understood the full scope of said statement. And most certainly cats and barns is a stab at universal-as-possible fun. We may not be identical, but nor are we that different.