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Re: GitHub and Open-Source Is a Boon for the Underprivileged

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Post by jazzdev » Wed, Jun 13, 2018, 5:07 AM UTC

w0rd-driven wrote: post #147

lockee wrote: post #80

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Re: GitHub and Open-Source Is a Boon for the Underprivileged

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Post by sitkack » Mon, Jun 18, 2018, 7:47 PM UTC

JanisL wrote: post #129

malvosenior wrote: post #99

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My school was extremely poor and underfunded. I was using Apple IIs in the late 90s. If my school had them I’m sure 99% of all schools in the US have at least early 80s computers available. > I think the suggestion that the choice is between "learning to program" or "watching sports" is extremely reductive and not accurate to a lot of people's experiences. I strongly disagree. That’s exactly what other people were do…

Ironically some of those older machines seem like they might have been good to learn to code on. I remember the first code I wrote was on some really old Apple computer with basic (I think it was Chipmunk Basic) and it was really quite straightforward compared with some of the things I deal with now. I don't know how favorably I would have responded to something like C++ or Java some other professional-oriented langu…

And the Apple II the parent is talking about aren't connected to the net. The singular purpose and tasking of loading Logo into machine like that is liberating. No distractions, one path forward, the keyboard, the screen, the manual and you.

Re: GitHub and Open-Source Is a Boon for the Underprivileged

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Post by JanisL » Fri, Jun 22, 2018, 6:23 AM UTC

sitkack wrote: post #182

JanisL wrote: post #129

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Ironically some of those older machines seem like they might have been good to learn to code on. I remember the first code I wrote was on some really old Apple computer with basic (I think it was Chipmunk Basic) and it was really quite straightforward compared with some of the things I deal with now. I don't know how favorably I would have responded to something like C++ or Java some other professional-oriented langu…

And the Apple II the parent is talking about aren't connected to the net. The singular purpose and tasking of loading Logo into machine like that is liberating. No distractions, one path forward, the keyboard, the screen, the manual and you.

You raise a really good point there, I hadn't considered the distraction aspect when writing my comment but there's definitely a lot of benefit from reducing the distractions when learning.