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amw-zero
on Dec 17, 2020
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On the cruelty of really teaching computing scienc...
How is he wrong? The average person cannot program. The average person can use but not create software, that’s why computers are popular.
mkl
on Dec 17, 2020
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He was wrong in that personal computers took the world by storm, to the point that almost everyone in modern civilisation carries one in their pocket. He was wrong in thinking that programming was essential to personal computing; it is not.
amw-zero
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But “computing” to him meant programming. So most people are not computing in the sense that he’s talking about.
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