The New Hacker Generation
Back in the days of yore, those of us of a certain (golden) age started our lives in computers with an ancient beige box which typically came pre-installed with BASIC. The old-school programming orientated environment gave many of us our first taste of programming, logic and an interest in our binary guzzling circuit-laden friends. Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge explore this golden age of computing and how it arguably produced a generation of hackers and whether we should and could try and do the same with modern computers.
Of course, we are just the very start of the conversation, but what do you think? Was the BASIC-era a real inspiration for you to get involved in computers? Do you think that we should try and re-create it? Should we put programming more up-front in the eyes of kids? Or, are we trying to over-complicate computers and confuse kids? Share your thoughts below in the shot comments…
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