Reminds me of my first website, back in 1994/95. I used yellow text on bright blue backgroud and wrote about music I liked. Only I was 10 years older.
My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
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Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#102Wow, great stuff. Tell her she did a fantastic job! --- By necessity, kids these days don't even need to learn what a file is. Videos are "on youtube". Documents are stored "in ms word". The median developer even seems to have a very shallow understanding of how a computer actually works. And why would they, if they can just glue some Lambdas together to earn a buck? --- Praise those that look a bit deeper and really…
I am the last generation that helped my parents with technical setup and support, and my children with technical setup and support.
For the childrens' sake I hope so. Parental accumulated tech debt from not keeping up with developments is stressful to deal with!
Looking around though I think it's going to depend on what industry parents are in. There's still a lot of cluelessness around even among people who have grown up in an era of computers.
Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
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You didn't love the strict and unhelpful generic XML exception you got when you accidentally forgot to close a tag?
I thought the whole point of XML tags coming in named pairs was so you could be helpfully told which tag wasn't closed?
XHTML was a move by Big CMS to make edit-and-FTP error prone. Before that you rarely had to care whether the tag was closed.
Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#104Wow, great stuff. Tell her she did a fantastic job! --- By necessity, kids these days don't even need to learn what a file is. Videos are "on youtube". Documents are stored "in ms word". The median developer even seems to have a very shallow understanding of how a computer actually works. And why would they, if they can just glue some Lambdas together to earn a buck? --- Praise those that look a bit deeper and really…
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Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
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Abstractions will start coming and they don't stop coming. People in the late 90s/early 2000s probably complained about people like me who learned about HTML but only had a shallow understanding of how laying out a GUI and text rendering works. Which why would we, when we could just glue some HTML together to make a Chrono Trigger fan site?
Abstractions are fine. Everything we do is a dozen layers of abstraction on top of the metal anyway. It just happens that people who know how the bits actually move underneath the abstractions tend to be better at solving problems related to those abstractions, than those who don't.
There are problems where understanding one level below the abstractions indeed leads to better solutions. However, I would argue that for a large set of problems, this is not the case. I think being aware of the abstraction (at multiple levels) would lead you to choose the right abstraction level for solving the problem. Of course, apart from school assignments, these abstraction levels are never given with a certain problem, so the more you know, the better you'll be able to see it.
Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#1067 years old? Don't force kids If you need your kid to be kid. Hand coding HTML is just trash than collecting leaves & beautify the kindergarden book. I've no memory for last 10+ years other than computer and programming. All I've pretty beautiful memory from childhood.
Maybe the kid likes to learn about computers and there’s enough time to do both.
Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
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Is this code review of HTML written by a 7 year old too hackernews, or just hackernews enough? Who can tell!
When the Trump assassination attempt happened last week and every single post on here was still about computers that's when I realized this place is different
Isn’t that kind of on purpose though? I think you will get flagged if you just post general news articles. It looks like political posts are only accepted if they have some relation to technology.
Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#108Wow, great stuff. Tell her she did a fantastic job! --- By necessity, kids these days don't even need to learn what a file is. Videos are "on youtube". Documents are stored "in ms word". The median developer even seems to have a very shallow understanding of how a computer actually works. And why would they, if they can just glue some Lambdas together to earn a buck? --- Praise those that look a bit deeper and really…
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Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
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> By necessity, kids these days don't even need to learn what a file is. Videos are "on youtube". Documents are stored "in ms word". Coincidentally, I've been thinking about that recently. My conclusion was that this couldn't be true, as it didn't make any sense. I mean, even when using a phone or a tablet, the pictures they take or the videos they make end up somewhere. And that somewhere must be found, to be able t…
I'm 22, and most of my "not tech savvy" peers and anyone I've met under 20 have zero concept of how most tech actually works. The pictures taken on your phone are not "stored somewhere", they are stored "in Google" or "in iCloud" or "in the photos app". Documents are similarily "in Google" or "in Word". There's no intuitive relation between photos and documents being the same thing on the filesystem, nor is there a c…
> darn adults these days won't teach their kids how to use the computer!
I would bet most of the greyhaired people on here as well as those who were born at the time of the personal computer revolution didn't have parents who were proficient in a technology that was literally just made available to consumers yet those kids learn to use a computer on their own at a time where there was no internet available to check.
Why do kids suddenly need to be taught personally when they are the first generation to have the greatest amount of resources to learn how to use a computer available for free, in multiple teaching styles, multiple formats, at different levels of detail?
I feel this is related to the helicopter parent mentality that replaced parenting styles from earlier periods
Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#110Awesome!
That's pretty much how I make websites up to this day.
Later, if it grows, I usually add a stylesheet file to separate content and layout.
Then I sometimes add some JavaScript.
Then I sometimes add some backend storage and processing.
Then I need a certificate for https.
Then if it gets a lot of traffic, I put a CDN in front of it.
And that's it.