As a student in Scotland currently studying Computing, I can safely say that computing is well subscribed to up here. However, for personally there are some turn offs. When I am older I would like to be a programmer, but we are taught visual basic. I realise that it is an easy language but I want to learn something actually worthwhile. Also, the exam board's definitions of some things are out of date. For example, it states a web server allows a user to access the Internet. Whereas now I believe it is a server that hosts files for Internet users. I would say their definition is a proxy server. This sense that what I am learning will be of little use to me in the actual industry of computing is a bit of a downer after watching this releases' UDS.
I still make small programs for the fun of it :) - Craig On 26 Aug 2010, at 07:16, Sean Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > Personally, I think that half the reason people find computers boring > these days is that there isn't the "mystique" about them that there > was when I was growing up (the 80s)... you had a BBC Micro, your mate > had a Commodore 64... you argued about which was the better computer > and you programmed small apps "just to prove you could"... you bought > magazines with pages of code to type in to make a little cursor go > along the bottom of the screen with strange pixellated things at top > that were supposedly aliens... which, of course, would normally crash > somewhere along the way "Syntax error at line 34"... ah, the joy!! > > Now computers are "out of the box", I don't think people "have the > fire" for programming them - they're more interested in just using > them... - becoming a computer programmer is no more exciting (to your > average teenager) than becoming a TV engineer or a washing-machine > repairer... > > To make "IT interesting again" you would have to make "being a > programmer something special" again... and it's not, really, > anymore... > > Sean > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
