In the 80's our school got a room full of apple IIs. It resulted in me getting a school report that said that I needed to learn to use computers for something o

In the 80's our school got a room full of apple IIs. It resulted in me getting a school report that said that I needed to learn to use computers for something other than programming. It struck me as a little odd because you can't program a computer without having a task that you want to do. That was the boring bit though, getting the computer to do it was where the fun was. In hindsight I never learned very much from the school computers. The limited access meant you couldn't dedicate the time needed for a deep dive. I was lucky to have computers at home. over time A trs-80, PET, vic-20, c64, Amiga. No Apple at home though. The real learning came from spending hours at a time mucking around with them. Also Compute, and Dr Dobbs were invaluable growing up in a town of about 5,000 information was limited. For all that people complain about the internet rotting the brains of our youth, I know there are kids out there that are like I was, they have easy access to so much more information. They will do some great things, and they will do it because it's interesting, not because it will make them rich.