Comment Re:Incredibly foolish article (Score 1) 534
" I am sure some short sighted person said such things about the automobile when it first arrived. Probably something like "If you don't understand how your car works, and can't fix it yourself, you will be walking everywhere." "
Yeah, you won't exactly be walking everywhere, but if you don't know anything about cars you'll probably be paying through the nose everytime you take it to the shop. I think the point the author of the article was trying to make (however poor his choice of words were) is that computers are becoming so prevalent in our everyday world, not knowing at least the basics of computer architecture could put an individual at a serious disadvantage when it comes to small, everyday things. I don't think he was suggesting people would end up as Morlocks if they couldn't whip up a simple "hello world" in Java. And to the topic of your Java class, just because you learned Java in a class that had 34 dropouts doesn't mean the general public is too stupid to learn more about computers. It's quite the opposite actually. Not enough is being done to teach people. Better professors, more classes, better textbooks etc etc.
Yeah, you won't exactly be walking everywhere, but if you don't know anything about cars you'll probably be paying through the nose everytime you take it to the shop. I think the point the author of the article was trying to make (however poor his choice of words were) is that computers are becoming so prevalent in our everyday world, not knowing at least the basics of computer architecture could put an individual at a serious disadvantage when it comes to small, everyday things. I don't think he was suggesting people would end up as Morlocks if they couldn't whip up a simple "hello world" in Java. And to the topic of your Java class, just because you learned Java in a class that had 34 dropouts doesn't mean the general public is too stupid to learn more about computers. It's quite the opposite actually. Not enough is being done to teach people. Better professors, more classes, better textbooks etc etc.
