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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. Re:RCA 1802 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    At the risk of having the site melt down...

    http://www.6502.org

    All kinds of things there. Also, Quinn at blondiehacks has been throwing together her 65C02 project, errors and all, and it's rather fun reading.