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> which according to some people is a little bit defunct The blog is active. http://blog.laptop.org/ http://blog.laptop.org/ > Now tablets have largely overco
by oever 10y ago
> which according to some people is a little bit defunct
The blog is active. http://blog.laptop.org/ http://blog.laptop.org/
> Now tablets have largely overcome laptops as an inexpensive computing device for children.
Children get exposed to horrible devices a lot. The One Laptop Per Child project gives children a device that is sturdy, energy efficient, easy to repair, and comes with full editable source code and no ties to brainwashing data thieves like Google and Facebook.
- partycoder 10y agoAgreed. And tablets are very opaque too, UIs hide all the internals and don't leave much to learn... as opposed to early home computers like the ZX Spectrum, which exposed people to programming right away.
- pjmlp 10y agoTrue, but in this regard iPads are actually quite good when compared with the alternatives. Granted, kids will need their parents to install them the apps, but there are quite a few to play around with programming. For example Pythonista. And Apple now even is investing into it with the Playgrounds, of course not out of kindness, but also to get children hooked on Swift. Then I would put Windows tablets on second, because most of them are hybrid computers, so there are some options there. On Android parents are stuck with AIDE or apps that feel like people bundling text input fields with an eval button over the weekend. So nothing really appropriate here and 100% in sync with your remark.