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I agree, I initially got hooked because my dad told me "don't use the computer without my supervision and especially not Norton Commander, since a wrong keypres

I agree, I initially got hooked because my dad told me "don't use the computer without my supervision and especially not Norton Commander, since a wrong keypress can remove important directories". So what do I do the next day when he was at work? But during our youth (especially if you are > 30) there were also fewer distractions. No addictive social network sites. And a lot of games were designed to be fun to play, rather than to be addictive so that people buy more in-app purchases. IMO an iPad is a bad device to stimulate a hacker mindset, period (with or without parental controls). For homework (except perhaps writing essays), pen and paper is still pretty hard to beat. As a work 'canvas' paper is far more natural and you have to do the thinking.

drdaeman 9y ago
> since a wrong keypress can remove important directories This is actually how one learns to do their backups ;) And it's much better do it as a kid deleting their savegames, than as an adult dropping the production database. > except perhaps writing essays And math. As long as the machine's properly treated as a helper that runs the well-understood transformations without making human mistakes, not some magic tool that gives the right answers. Okay, maybe that's my childhood "trauma" speaking, where I had miscopied "+" as a "-" in a few final transformations (not really affecting anything) and had some quite unpleasant time arguing about this.