Tom Forsyth on nostr

Open in Damus

But what they did was induct a whole generation of kids into the idea that you could make a computer do what you want. Once you understand that, and like it, and discover in your soul that this is what you want to do with your life, the exact mechanism is irrelevant. You'll learn real languages!

Tom Forsyth · 5w

So maybe MAYBE something good will come of all this AI bollocks. Just like something good came of all that BASIC bollocks. Which is the love of coding. Real coding. Not using BASIC - that was just the seed. Flattening the learning curve. Getting the love and the need, if not the details, into kids.