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Wait, are you saying that those who didn't play computer games as kids generally made better programmers?? 100% the opposite of my experience in the late 80s/ea
by tdumitrescu 10y ago
Wait, are you saying that those who didn't play computer games as kids generally made better programmers?? 100% the opposite of my experience in the late 80s/early 90s, where the kids who excelled in high school cs courses were invariably those who had been exposed to/attracted to computers from a really young age thanks to games. Like everyone in class who wasn't a gamer was so far behind the rest it wasn't even funny.
- usrusr 10y agoHe said that amongst those who got hooked early by computing, the non-gamers were superior at non-gaming tasks. Hardly surprising, given the lack of truly successful regex-ninja games.
- arca_vorago 10y agoNot until you said that, brb, reg ex-ninja in ue4 coming up.
- danso 10y agoI'm talking about the folks in college who managed to get hooked on computers without the gateway drug of video games. They were in it for the love of hacking