Re:Ask HN: Are you teaching your kids to code? (and how)
by austin-cheney on Thursday March 14, 2024 @11:10AM
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Same. My kids were not interested.
When I grew up it was in the days of DOS. You had to configure things and tinker to get stuff to work. You had to dive in and really get to know the command line. It was thrilling to hack around in stuff you didn't write when the result actually works but does something far different than the original authors intended.
The coming generation has none of that. All they know is content on demand, which really means if somebody is not doing the work for them then it need not be done at all. They are blessed if they can actually use a keyboard to type characters as opposed to a touch screen.
When I grew up it was in the days of DOS. You had to configure things and tinker to get stuff to work. You had to dive in and really get to know the command line. It was thrilling to hack around in stuff you didn't write when the result actually works but does something far different than the original authors intended.
The coming generation has none of that. All they know is content on demand, which really means if somebody is not doing the work for them then it need not be done at all. They are blessed if they can actually use a keyboard to type characters as opposed to a touch screen.