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Post by Admin_Vistamike on May 1, 2014 14:52:20 GMT
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Post by warlock on May 1, 2014 22:28:53 GMT
Most users can't or won't program anything. How true, many of the young one's can't make change unless the cash register tells them how much to give you back.
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Post by irvsp on May 2, 2014 0:44:43 GMT
Most users can't or won't program anything. How true, many of the young one's can't make change unless the cash register tells them how much to give you back. Well, I beg to differ. Even 40 years ago there wasn't that much in the way of s/w. PC's were too small and slow to do what many envisioned. Look at any old TRS-80 stick figure game or Apple simple color games. Today the question is who has the next bright idea and the skill(s) to write it? Not only that, the number of possible platforms are quite large compared to many years ago (make that decades). In addition, schools are turning out people who KNOW computers and how to make them work. In the early 80's desktop computers were not that well entrenched in businesses. Maybe there were some 'terminals', but mostly big iron that handled reports and such to run a business. Many people 'saw' the light then and did the work. Today it isn't as easy to do. My grandkids make games, using s/w that does most of the heavy work for them. PlayBasic is one for instance. I just isn't that easy to write something these days that can make YOU money, and hence there is a laziness to do it. Show a kid today a sliderule and they probably wouldn't know how to use it either? I don't know how some kids will be able to do math if the battery in the calculator runs out either. Our grandson told us they don't even teach SCRIPT any more... huh? What's with that?
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