Do Kids Still Program? 1104
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From his journal, hogghogg asks: "I keep finding myself in conversations with tertiary educators in the hard sciences (Physics, Astronomy, Chemistry, etc.) who note that even the geeks—those who voluntarily choose to major in hard sciences—enter university never having programmed a computer. When I was in grade six, the Commodore PET came out, and I jumped at the opportunity to learn how to program it. Now, evidently, most high school computer classes are about Word (tm) and Excel (tm). Is this a bad thing? Should we care?" Do you think the desire to program computers has declined in the younger generations? If so, what reasons might you cite as the cause?
No there's MySpace (Score:5, Funny)
Re:No there's MySpace (Score:2, Funny)
Only the lucky ones.
Re:Yep, they are. (Score:3, Funny)
Wow, you've got all that below your belt ... you must be a real hit with the ladies.
Re:No there's MySpace (Score:4, Funny)
The rest get too excited about majoring in some science or engineering in college and end up at schools without females, let alone sex
Re:No there's MySpace (Score:1, Funny)
Re:No there's MySpace (Score:4, Funny)
Re:yes, they do! (Score:3, Funny)
- you have a girlfriend
- she manually edits her podcast xml file
I don't believe that.Re:yes, they do! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:yes, they do! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:yes, they do! (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Yep, they are. (Score:3, Funny)
With all of that programming knowledge, once he learns some AI and some robotics (and advance both fields substantially; create some field called "biorobotics" or something), he can program a lady. Problem solved for him and all geeks like myself worldwide.
Re:yes, they do! (Score:5, Funny)
What? screwing up the XML file?
Re:No there's MySpace (Score:2, Funny)