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>Things are just too easy for kids these days. You can either have something be really difficult to learn, or you can have mass-market adoption. I'd wager that
by freehunter 9y ago
>Things are just too easy for kids these days.
You can either have something be really difficult to learn, or you can have mass-market adoption. I'd wager that easier-to-use computers have a benefit that far outweighs any negative that comes from hiding the underlying code and commands.
I don't know how to fix the bus I'm riding on if it breaks down, but that's okay because most of the time it doesn't break down and if it does, there are other people who know how to fix it. And if I wanted to learn how to fix the bus... it's really easy to open my laptop and go to YouTube and watch a video on how a bus works.
There's no need to force me to build my own bus before I can ride on it. People who want to build buses will learn how to build buses. And people who want to build websites that teach you how to build a bus will learn how to build a website to teach people how to build a bus.
You don't need to force them to learn it. If they want to, they will.
- crusso 9y agoThe whole point of the article was how kids these days don't get going on learning to program until later. While I like a nice UX as much as anyone, I think that the challenge of using a computer back in the day had its beneficial outcomes.