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Re:Two Paradigms of Personal Computing by mwcampbell on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @07:52PM (#24925532)
My concern is that children aren't getting exposed to the transparent kind of personal computing, only the opaque/magical kind. In that respect I think my generation was lucky (I was born in 1980). Maybe I can do something about this for my nieces and nephew (6 years old and under). But will the next generation in general even know what they're missing?
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Re:Two Paradigms of Personal Computing by 7thaccount on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @08:58PM (#24925941)
Raspberry Pi and other boards like the BBC Microbit, and Arduino are stepping in to help kids learn computing from Linux to hardware/robotics.

I'm also hoping that the Commander X16 project takes off. It's essentially a new Commodore 64 with better specs that is supposed to be affordable and easy to use and fun. That would make for a great first computer.

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Re:Two Paradigms of Personal Computing by fragsworth on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @09:26PM (#24926109)
Programming in python is already largely opaque/magical, as most people who use it don't actually understand the inner workings.

I'm not convinced yet that similar things won't be surface, in other ways.

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