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Well, true all that. Except, my non-technical parents won't be buying any more PCs. They can do everything they want on their ipad. And I'm pretty sure they don
by NTDF9 13y ago
Well, true all that. Except, my non-technical parents won't be buying any more PCs. They can do everything they want on their ipad. And I'm pretty sure they don't want media editors, compilers or complex spreadsheet editors either.
- everyone 13y agoThats a pity. How will the next generation learn about computers? I learned just from getting games to work on a DOS pc at home.
- crb3 13y agoRaspberry Pi, Arduino and their board-level Maker-centric ilk. It's a viable flea-market ecosystem now that everybody already has at least a computer of some sort, so the learning machine doesn't have to be that do-all hub-of-activity machine, it just has to connect to it. Having GPIO pins to play with also helps with the learning. The Boca Raton model of computing device was a bit stifling for homebrew hardware extension because of having to accommodate the de facto standards of the IBM PC/AT model (RS232 serial, Centronics parallel, CGA/EGA/VGA display, DIN5/PS2 kybd/mouse) to get a hackable connection going.