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No wonder so many programmers stick to boring business apps! ;-) I got into coding qbasic (meh) & amiga (yeaaah) game engines in the 80s. Currently teaching k
by nekeo9jd 7y ago
No wonder so many programmers stick to boring business apps! ;-)
I got into coding qbasic (meh) & amiga (yeaaah) game engines in the 80s.
Currently teaching kids with Computercraft, to manipulate virtual worlds rather than boring spreadsheets.
IMO that sort of computer work will be obsolete by the time today’s kid are grown.
I’d probably avoid more than basic coding in general anymore and focus on math-y stuff. Just my take on where need will be, and discussing this with education researchers, and other thinkers.
I have a hard time believing we’ll carry as much code from the last couple decades as we had to from the previous few.
So much of it these days is web ui’s with a short shelf life relative to foundational code we shlepped forward in kernels, banking, and complex industry systems.
- pjmlp 7y agoI got into coding via Timex 2068 Basic, Z80/8086/68000 Assembly, Turbo Basic/Turbo Pascal Demoscene meetups. Maybe coding the Arduino/ESP32 game boy clones is appealing to today's kids.