I couldn't agree more with pauric on this one. Most people I know who are leaders in technology, programming, and even a lot of designers, got their start with computers as children. When we got our first computer I was 7 and it was a c64. No instructions, no GUI.. just the BASIC language and a lot of curiosity. I hacked away at it until I figured it out, and I attribute a lot of my success to that early beginning.
If these kids are given access to a hacker friendly system they will learn how to make it do what they want. Pauric is entirely right, children learn best by exploring and being "thrown into the deep end." I'm sure a lot of us here have stories from our childhood about our first computers and how we learned how to use them without documentation or helpful interfaces. On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 11:42:28, pauric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > I'd like to think that there's a future generation of nerds, who > like me, got their start supporting & fixing their friend's > computers. > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmYDgncMhXw > Frankly, I think throwing kids in at the deep end of maker/hacker > culture is a stroke of genius. [snip] > Children learn best by exploring their world. > > regards -pauric -- Matt Nish-Lapidus work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / www.bibliocommons.com -- personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / www.nishlapidus.com ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
