On 2/9/07, Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I just haven't seen young people really "catch the vision" like it seems that me and most of my geeky friends did back in elementary school.
Didn't read the article, but... It seems like there's too much in the way these days. You can't just fire up your BASIC editor (or whatever it was - I had hypercard and logowriter) and hack together a neat little program like you used to be able to. And even if you did, so what? Who are you going to show it to? Half the fun for me was showing what I'd done to my friends. Nowadays to make something worth showing your friends, the learning curve is absurd. Maybe Squeak and/or a WYSIWYG web app could do this, I don't know. My sister asked me to teach her to make web pages, but I'm not sure I can make it simple enough that she'll be able to get into it without a lot of overhead. I mean, if she's got to learn vi so she can edit files on my server, or if she's going to have to mess around with an ftp client, that might be enough of a pain to kill the desire to fiddle around with cool stuff to show off to her friends. Dan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
