Damn, I guess things have really progressed. When I was in school (even highschool), all we had were those crappy old black-and-white all-in-one (the monitor, computer in a single box) Macintoshes (se's?) and we spent the class typing from sheets (aa aba abb abac abacd abacac ad ada adab adah adadh adhaha hjajka ajkaajajhja) while the teacher played SimCity on his.

I always figured that by highschool, they'd have decided that ten years of typing classes were enough for everyone and let us move on to something else. Seems that any time I tried to do something different (since I typed about 90wpm at the time), like sneaking a copy of Turbo Pascal onto the mac and writing a graphically animated slot machine program during computer(typing -ahem-) class, I was in huge trouble for "not doing what you were told".

Oh well. Now days kids aren't even interested in coding it seems. All the kids I know (in my family and elsewhere) have little interest beyond surfing the web and chatting on AIM. Figuring out how to use things and how the computer works and actually coding just requires too much "learning" and effort.

In reply to Re: Can a non-programmer teach Perl? by Seumas
in thread Can a non-programmer teach Perl? by Ovid

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