Today young people needn't leave their books and classrooms for the
computer lab, they can simply shift from playing video games and
chatting on social media and watching "stupid trick" youtube videos to
programming/hacking on their own computer/internet. Well many of them
anyway.
Most probably don't even know what a computer lab is anymore, that was
our generation(s)'s thing!
On 6/5/17 10:53 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
Steve writes:
“I've a friend in his late 70s who was a bit in that froth... he
graduated MIT around 1963 with a degree in Architecture but a
hankering and aptitude for programming (nearly failed his Architecture
degree because of all the time he spent in the computer lab)...”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/04/technology/obituary-jean-sammet-software-designer-cobol.html
“In the early 1950s, the computer industry was in its infancy, with no
settled culture or rigid career paths. Lois Haibt, a contemporary of
Ms. Sammet’s at IBM, where Ms. Sammet worked for nearly three decades,
observed, “They took anyone who seemed to have an aptitude for
problem-solving skills — bridge players, chess players, even women.”
Among these aptitudes I would certainly select for the individuals
that had the right priorities and didn’t leave the computer lab for
mere lectures and classwork! How else can one develop the proper
skills? (Oh, I suppose there are impressionable young people on
this list who I should not contaminate with these subversive ideas.)
Marcus
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