Jerry J. Haumberger wrote:
> Proper computer language skills should be taught, not marketed. Education
> begins in a structured classroom over a period of months and years;
> marketing attempts to gain the quickest access to your wallet as possible
> without regard to quality control, just profit and power.
Thats where I believe that you have a mistake.
Marketing, in the end, is designed to influence the opinion of
people. The people who decide what will be taught in schools are
people. These people get influenced. I've mentioned about twice
by now what happened in my country. GUI and simple-user was
marketed as "the right way" and what everyone should do. I'm not
sure, but I think that I can also sense some fear going arround
latly from hackers (In the programmers meaning). When someone see
me type fast in CLI in a DOS or Linux prompt, or talking about
what they concider to be "high tech topics", their first question
is latly: "Wow! you know alot about computers! Say, have you
ever hacked a site??". A few years ago, those who knew alot about
computers were "geeks to be ignored by normal society". Then, for
a while it was "The cool guys who can get the max from their computers
and get all the latest games". Now I fear its becoming "A potential
hacker to beware of.".
But back to the skill teaching, as I said, the people who select
what will be teached are influenced by marketing. They also were
influenced by the idea that people who use computers do not have
to understand them, they just have to know how to use them. Using
the simplest way, ofcourse. Thats how it is in Israel right now.
How is it in other places?
Until somehow the fact that learning how to USE the computer in
the more supisticated sense is ok is prooven, nothing will be attempted
to be done about it.
Or Botton
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