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Should my child learn Minecraft or Roblox? Learn? Really? They're games. Let them pick the game they want to play, or let them choose a different game entirel
by booleandilemma 6y ago
Should my child learn Minecraft or Roblox?
Learn? Really?
They're games. Let them pick the game they want to play, or let them choose a different game entirely.
This is like seeing "Should my child learn Java or Python?"?
I'm really questioning the "nation of coders" that big tech is envisioning. We don't need a country of people programming full-time.
Get your kid a chemistry set.
- entropicdrifter 6y agoJust imagine the average code quality once everyone is coding. The people who are mediocre coders now will be the all-stars of tomorrow.
- lhoff 6y agoI mean you're probably right in the sense that the peak of the Gauß-Distribution is probably shifting to the left. The absolute numbers are probably a different story. When more people get introduced to coding, more people are getting good and very good at it. Think about sports. Are there more people that are bad at skiing in Austria compared to the Netherland? Yes (if you don't count the ones who never stood on skies). Are there more good skiiers in the Netherland compared to Austria? Absolutely not.
- Aeolun 6y agoI think the fact that you can do coding everywhere makes the comparison a bit skewed. How many awesome skiiers are there in the Netherlands that will never develop that skill?
- MertsA 6y agoOn the contrary, code quality sucks now because there's not enough talented programmers to go around. So many smart, quick witted kids are getting diverted into other professions. What if the total number of capable programmers doubled with the same amount of work? There's plenty of developers today who would be considered flat out incompetent if you held them to standards for any other industry. At the very least there's not enough qualified individuals on the job market to force those people out yet.
- Turing_Machine 6y agoChemistry sets suck nowadays. Some years ago I wanted to buy one for my nieces and nephews. The only one I could find had on it, in bold letters, "No glass! No flames! No hazardous chemicals!" Yeah...no fun, either.
- OkayPhysicist 6y agoThe evolution of chemistry kits over time is really highlighted by the ones my grandfather, father, and myself owned. Grandad's had all the ingredients, and told you how to make, a couple explosive compounds. Dad's had the ingredients, but not instructions. The most dangerous thing I could do with mine was probably eat the copper salts.
- juanuys 6y agoWhen I was a kid, we'd dig a large hole in the garden, then pop some chlorine and milk in a plastic coke bottle, quick shake, then dump it in the hole and all my mates would very quickly push the soil back onto it. Boom, and "die aarde maak rooibek oop", like that old Afrikaans poem said... Translation: The earth opens its red mouth (due to the red coloured soil)
- A4ET8a8uTh0 6y agoThat is so sad. That was one of the things I was really looking forward to. I mean, I guess we can always play with 'safe' stuff ( ferrofluids, oobleck ), but it just won't be the same without going boom.
- runj__ 6y agoI never got a chemistry set primarily because my parents thought of them as a bit dangerous. I would have loved a set that was "guaranteed" safe just to get anything at all. I probably wouldn't have become a Nobel prize winning chemist with my n00b/safe set but it might have set something off.
- lawrenceyan 6y agoOk well now you have to tell us. Nobel prize for what!?