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Web access is pretty scary in that regard. Infinite novelty on tap can be a demotivator to create anything.
On the other hand, lots more people are creating videos (for youtube et al) than ever before.
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Web access is pretty scary in that regard. Infinite novelty on tap can be a demotivator to create anything.
On the other hand, lots more people are creating videos (for youtube et al) than ever before.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
unfortunately in the selection that I have of 8 (mine), 9 (not mine) and 10 (mine) none are bright enough to grasp the concept of a 'sprite' yet, i'm not even talking about relating code to that sprite. flash/actionscript? ho many steps are there between typing something and actually getting stuff appear on the screen? I've written 2-3 simple swf's, and it caused my head to spin... you think a kid could do it? on the…
I am pretty sure when I was 10, it was normal for a kid to know what a sprite was (indeed the finer points of what and how your computer did sprites was playground argument stuff). Most people had at least had an attempt at creating their own game or demo. Kids these days only want to use computers.
http://amigan.1emu.net/aw/not30.txt
110 LET A=1
120 LET B=0
130 LET S=B
140 FOR I=B TO 19
150 PRINT AT 9,I;"g" (graphics G)
160 PRINT AT 10,I;"a" (graphics A)
170 NEXT I
180 PRINT AT A,B;" " (space)
190 LET B=B+1
200 IF B210 LET A=A+1
220 PRINT AT S,B-1;" " (space)
230 LET B=0
240 PRINT AT A,B;">"
250 IF A=9 AND B=19 THEN STOP
260 PRINT AT A,B+1;
270 IF PEEK(PEEK 16398+256*PEEK 16399)=137 THEN STOP
280 IF S=0 THEN GOTO 400
290 PRINT AT S,B-1;" " (space)
300 IF S=9 THEN GOTO 340
310 LET S=S+1
320 PRINT AT S,B;"3" (graphics 3)
330 GOTO 180
340 LET S=0
400 IF INKEY$="F" THEN LET S=A
405 GOTO 180
The number of programmers drops more then half between 10 and 20 years, and drops again between 20 and 30 years. I am wondering if this is due to people leaving the field or companies not wanting to hirer older developers?
Started with BBC Basic and 6502 assembler at home, then Pascal at school on CP/M and DOS, then FORTRAN and MATLAB at college on VMS, then C++ and Perl on Solaris at work, then PL/SQL, then OCaml for personal projects, now mainly Python on Linux for work. I also have Acorns and Commodores at home for tinkering. For work tho', only work counts. Real-world programming is not just about programming, it's doing so within…