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Merry Christmas - Be an Erector Engineer!

Posted by timothy on from the dangerous-toys dept.

theodp writes: More than 50 years ago, lucky kids found an Automatic Conveyor Erector Set under the Xmas tree. And while President Obama lamented last year that kids — including his own — were done a disservice by an educational system that failed to introduce computer science concepts 'with the ABCs and the colors', Radio Shack advised 'Parents Who Care' to put a TRS-80 under the tree for their kids to program way back in 1978. So, to bring things up-to-date, what are the hot tech/science gifts that Santa brought children today?

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  1. Re: Up to date? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Everything is a dead end profession because it's a global economy, and we are all overpaid. It's all about who you know and who's willing to share their life boat. Network, make friends, don't completely sick at your job and you'll do fine.

  2. Cat got your tongue? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Kids want only tablets and phones. Finding a way to program in these electronic devices is almost futile: Lame IDE kits, obsolete and broke ports of languages, webserves that cannot read local files... When I was kid I did carve for a C64 or Apple II, now I my tablets only drops birds and wait to hearts for recharge. Meh.

    And if you didn't got it: WANT KIDS TO BECOME CODERS AND ENGINEERS? PORT THE TOOLS TO ANDROID AND IOS!