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Great read. I really like the bit about learn "the IT", there's no book or anything to be good at computers you just gotta fuck around and find out a bunch. >

Great read. I really like the bit about learn "the IT", there's no book or anything to be good at computers you just gotta fuck around and find out a bunch. > Like, when a toddler uses a spoon for the first time, they don’t know what a spoon is, where they are, or who the current Prime Minister is. But they see the spoon, and they see the cereal, and their dumb baby brain is just like “yeA” and they have a red hot go. And like, they get it wrong the first few times, but it doesn’t matter, because they don’t know to be afraid of getting it wrong. So eventually, they get it right.

Cthulhu_ 6y ago
The problem is that there are a LOT of books, but what is relevant just changes every couple years. I mean the IT books section of the charity shops is a good example of this, there's so many there for older versions of Office, operating systems, etc. That said, I had a school book (Structured Computer Organization by Tanenbaum) that explains a lot of the basics of computers. Sure, it's about the Pentium architecture and early JVM and doesn't cover multi-core architecture or using GPU's to crunch numbers, but it goes through a lot of the basics.