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I don't think the industry is getting dumber. I remember learning a lot from 1980s computer books with jokes and cartoons when I was older than 10, for example
by mjw1007 8y ago
I don't think the industry is getting dumber.
I remember learning a lot from 1980s computer books with jokes and cartoons when I was older than 10, for example http://wiki.c2.com/?ThinkingForth http://wiki.c2.com/?ThinkingForth , or the Fortran colouring book.
I'm not sure I'd've got on with ones where all the text is in cartoons, though. Too hard to scan, perhaps.
It was best when the cartoons were doing double service as diagrams showing what was going on inside the computer.
- some_account 8y agoI think they are actually. It used to require skill to be a programmer in the old days. You knew one language very well. Today you know hundreds of small things on medium level and you can Google anything. It's quite easy to write code in any text editor, they are all filled with colorful fonts, intellisense, plugins etc.
- rainonmoon 8y agoThis is the same spurious argument that we're getting dumber because we can Google anything we forget. Hey, we developed software to make our lives easier and make us orders of magnitude more efficient! What a bunch of idiots!