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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by ceejayoz on Sunday June 14, 2020 @06:59PM (#23522147)
Wouldn’t it be better to be able to devote limited learning time to more useful things than locating oddly named executables, though?

It is a mistake to conflate “it was harder for me” with “I learned more”.

My kids can program more complicated stuff in Minecraft than I could at their age. Part of that is having a tool that’s fun and abstracts away the boring bits.

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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by skissane on Sunday June 14, 2020 @08:09PM (#23522589)
> Part of that is having a tool that’s fun and abstracts away the boring bits.

What is "boring" varies from person to person.

I know, when our son plays Minecraft Java Edition, he likes to play it with the debug screen (F3) on.

He doesn't understand what most of the details on that screen mean, although he is learning a few. (He was asking me to explain what X, Y and Z coordinates were.) But, even if he doesn't understand most of it, he still likes it, and probably sooner or later he'll ask me more questions about it.

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