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Want To Get Kids Interested In Programming? Teach Them Computer History

Posted by timothy on from the nostalgia-works dept.

An anonymous reader writes "With poor IT teaching putting kids off pursuing a career in the computing it is time to look for a new approach. Taking kids back to the time of computing pioneers like John Von Neumann and the first machines — the likes of the Z3, the Eniac and the Colossus — would both inspire them and help get over the fundamentals about how computers work, argues silicon.com."

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  1. Yea... teach them history... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...with PowerPoint.

    >:(

  2. Frankly... by jcreus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Being part of the generation Z, sometimes I still wonder how people survived with less than one megabyte of memory, no tabs (no Internet!)... Depressing!

    1. Re:Frankly... by PPH · · Score: 3, Funny

      It was all caves and clubs, kid. And fire, but that came later on. And we had to fight off the dinosaurs walking to school. Until Spielberg moved them all to that island.

      Now get off my lawn!

      --
      Have gnu, will travel.