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I look at the self directed learning resources kids have today and am jealous. How many of us have brute forced computers and the abstractions within by hammeri
by nhoughto 5y ago
I look at the self directed learning resources kids have today and am jealous. How many of us have brute forced computers and the abstractions within by hammering MSDOS, all of its weird nooks and crannies with no one to explain anything.
I don’t know what I’d do if I could just YouTube any topic and get a meaningful answer 30 years ago, it could be incredible? Would have made things faster but maybe that’s not the point? I’ll find out I guess with my son, it will be interesting.
- Dowwie 5y agoI wonder the exact same thing. My parents bought me a book on turbo c++ in the early-90s because I was interested in programming. I had no idea what to make of it. No context. It wasn't engaging for me. What I really wanted to learn was turbo pascal, so that I could make some cool "BBS stuff.". In the absence of any significant resources or mentoring, my curiosity died on the vine. It's far more frequent, now, to come across people in their early 20s who have been programming since early childhood. The resources are in far greater abundance and the opportunities continue to increase.
- Mezzie 5y agoYeah, it's insane how quickly this changed. I'm 33 and I started programming as a child and that's very unusual in my age group/a bit older. I had a father who knew BASIC, the official HTML, CSS, and JS documentation, and a lot of unsupervised computer time. It's amazing how many variables had to align to make my early experience possible versus what kids grow up with normal access to now.