I swear it will be like, OpenBSD only, custom router, firewall everything, no Windows...
If you can break out, good on you. If you can write your own tools, even better.
"I was traumatized from computing because my dad never let me see a GUI outside of X11."
I hope they'll be bored enough to wander over to books--"old" programming and math books--and just start working through those. Who knows.
There were at least three groups of folks with unlimited access to computers and Internet in school: smart gamers, smarter tinkerers, and me. What I'd like to encourage, if I could control some portion of it, is to funnel activity to the second of the three. And that based on constraints, because I don't know any better than utter abstinence.
Any complaints about Minecraft will get them pointed to the book on Foley, gcc, and the promise of my time to help...
In the end, they'll figure out everything anyway. But at least in the beginning, I tried to have them focus on first principles.
Did I mention the Great Books? I have to put those somewhere.
I will say, YouTube killed my nephew’s interest in programming and tinkering. He started out with all sorts of interests and teaching himself how to code. Now he just watches YouTube and TikTok like all the other sheep and does nothing interesting.
I optimized my life to build projects, and I avoid youtube and tutorials unless I can't really guess how to achieve something. Tutorials, and especially video tutorials that are less easy to quickly examine just deplede your "creativity moment". Why make something if someone already did? The goal that was "magical and special" for me is now a consumerism's image in the Desert of the Real.
I get so annoyed these days when I google "how to X" and the top 20 results are youtube videos like I don't want to make noise or put headphones on sheesh.
I get angry because they're largely bullshit filler to begin with, and even that aside I can skim a lot faster than I can read. They're an intentional waste of my time soley for the sake of draining my wallet.
The placement of videos over text tutorials is a literal scam, and I resent it strongly.
I suppose it's different for younger kids, but Minecraft was very productive for me compared to many alternatives. I was playing as a teenager, though. I learned binary logic through the redstone system, server administration (and how to build computers) from server hosting. Met some friends that I've kept for over 10 years and still see in person when we're in the same area.
It's a pretty wholesome game with a lot of skills you can learn without even realizing.
If you can break out, good on you. If you can write your own tools, even better.
"I was traumatized from computing because my dad never let me see a GUI outside of X11."
I hope they'll be bored enough to wander over to books--"old" programming and math books--and just start working through those. Who knows.
There were at least three groups of folks with unlimited access to computers and Internet in school: smart gamers, smarter tinkerers, and me. What I'd like to encourage, if I could control some portion of it, is to funnel activity to the second of the three. And that based on constraints, because I don't know any better than utter abstinence.
Any complaints about Minecraft will get them pointed to the book on Foley, gcc, and the promise of my time to help...
In the end, they'll figure out everything anyway. But at least in the beginning, I tried to have them focus on first principles.
Did I mention the Great Books? I have to put those somewhere.