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I unironically find green text on a black background really nice to read, it contrasts well without being fatiguing on the eyes like dark text on light background. not sure what the author is on about
Hello, I think the article is not very good, however its main point still stands. Part of my activity is teaching basic word processing and basic html/css to non-IT students. And it's quite a struggle because most (I say most because of course there are exceptions) students don't know how to use their computer for the most basic tasks. Most have no idea how files are organized on a computer, ignoring the concept of f…
That's because the aim of computer design in the few decades has been to turn such things into implementation details. If your primary computing device is a phone or a tablet you have no idea, and /no need to know/, what your photo's filename is. It's just there in the app and can be easily shared, edited or printed from there. The question is -- is that a bad thing? For the majority of people a computer is a means t…
My answer is yes, because once you enter the job market, you probably won't be working with a phone or a tablet. And obviously if you can't use a keyboard you'll be slow at your task.
Allow me to preface this by saying that I am, in fact, a teen, and absolutely do not represent the majority of teenagers. This post is a generalization and a subjective rant that absolutely doesn't hold up in real life. >>>When you explain what happens under the hood, they will ignore you. When you tell them what a certain setting probably does, they will ignore you. In my experience, although there may be some teena…
I believe the original article is bad, but not simply for the reasons you state. It's rather part of a tired genre of "kids these days" articles where modern technology has somehow poisoned them beyond comprehension. In fact, kids tend to do things in a pragmatic and rational way, and it is on the author to appreciate what they are and are not savvy about. The typical pattern around new technology in my own life(30's…
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>Anyone born in the last 25 years will intuitively think to search for a video tutorial for any new micro-skill. Etc. But many kids have difficulties adquiring a new skill that requires reading because videos are not enough
Stack overflow questions should be flagged for deletion if the answer is in paragraph 1 of the man page
You want to know who's fault this is? Yours, whoever wrote this article. It constantly complains that modern teens barely touch anything underneath the surface in tech but ironically completely smears over any of the underlying issues. Let's have a think... Do any of the mainstream tech publications cover low level programming? No. Are any low level computer skills taught in college or other mainstream programming co…
Hate to break it to you, but I’m in college learning C and assembly right now, don’t know how much lower level you can get.
None of the local colleges teach either!
They don't know what their car's choke would have been, or what a dwell tach is. So? They can still drive. Not one in 100,000 could milk a cow. I write assembly code that runs in supervisory mode. My kid couldn't write assembly code to save his life, but just taught me a new algorithm I'd never seen before. And he could learn assembly if he wanted.
Not one in 100,000 could milk a cow. I know this wasn't your point, but I'll nitpick anyway since that number felt too low, so I checked, and the number seems like it should be closer to 1 in 200. There are 72M children [1] below the age of 18 in the USA today, so 1 in 100,000 would only be 720 and there's something like 40,000 dairy farms in the USA, and I'd bet every child on those farms older than 8 (probably youn…
You want to know who's fault this is? Yours, whoever wrote this article. It constantly complains that modern teens barely touch anything underneath the surface in tech but ironically completely smears over any of the underlying issues. Let's have a think... Do any of the mainstream tech publications cover low level programming? No. Are any low level computer skills taught in college or other mainstream programming co…
The author of the article seems to be a teen themselves (cf. the first paragraph and usage of 'they' and 'we'). 'Mainstream tech pubs with low level programming?' Depends on what you count as low level programming. The tech publications I check out sure contain information about, for example, C and C++ developments.
The previous "big one", Dobb's Journal was killed off circa 2014 (Although it was pretty much dead already by that point)
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Completely agree. Kids these days ... :) I had my own Windows 95 PC (120 MHz Packard Bell) that I saved up lawn money for (my dad agreed to pay 50% for my first computer). I wanted to learn programming, but found the C and C++ books my parents bought me to be really dense. So I taught myself QBasic (and TI Basic on my TI-83). If I had had anything like the youtube videos, online tutorials, blogs, Stack Overflow, etc.…
I remember my dad being fed up with me asking "hey dad, can I play Woffenstone?" (yes, I pronounced it like that since I was a 11 year old kid from sweden back then) so he gave me the DOS 5.0 manual and said "here you go kiddo, you can play as much as you want when you've learned how to start the game by yourself). That's where it all started for me and I was always on the computer whenever I could until my dad got f…
There was a Windows for Workgroups computer lab at my high school. They had a DOS-based login, but accessing the DOS prompt from Windows was disabled. At one point, someone figured out that the login screen could be bypassed by pressing Ctrl+Break; the teacher found out and disabled that particular keystroke. But after hours of experimenting, I figured out that Alt+3 sends an ASCII character (0x3) that has the same effect. So we were back to playing games in the lab after hours -- they were often hidden in a folder named Alt+255 which looked like a space in DOS but was invisible to the File Manager in Windows. Good times :)
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The author of the article seems to be a teen themselves (cf. the first paragraph and usage of 'they' and 'we'). 'Mainstream tech pubs with low level programming?' Depends on what you count as low level programming. The tech publications I check out sure contain information about, for example, C and C++ developments.
What publications would you recommend for C and C++? The previous "big one", Dobb's Journal was killed off circa 2014 (Although it was pretty much dead already by that point)
I imagine the author shaking his fist at the sky while writing this. Speaking as a former teen, teens don't know much about sales and marketing, mechanical engineering, international politics, or basically any other aspect of the adult world. This is because they're teens. I guess because they learn to use new technology faster it gives the impression that they know all about it. But I don't know why anyone would exp…