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We'll nobody programmed in general since computing was so new. The industry is just significantly larger now. The trend though I think is that computing has got

by zanny 13y ago

We'll nobody programmed in general since computing was so new. The industry is just significantly larger now. The trend though I think is that computing has gotten huge but actually developing that computing hasn't grown at all in the youth group, just the consumption of that computing. You lose a lot of tinker-ability when you move to GUIs and especially when you don't distribute developer tools or learning resources. I mean, think of the generation growing on iphones. How would they ever get exposure to programming or tinkering on a device like that?

oscilloscope 13y ago
Paragraf is a great app to make graphic shaders. It's easy to use touch x/y coordinates and the camera feed as a texture. The results look beautiful on retina displays. I've gotten several kids hooked on it, even overcoming some of the GLSL syntax hurdles to get their programs to work. I also gave them cheap $5 jeweller's loupes so they could inspect pixels as the program runs. Lots of kids genuinely want to create stuff.