IT: We want to prevent problems before they happen!
Accounting: How much will that cost?
IT: Less than paying for a security breach + fines
Accounting: What if a breach never happens? What would we have to get in that scensario?
IT: Well. . .
Accounting: I'll allocate you the money to pretend it will never happen. Good luck!
My driveway interconnects with roads that interconnect interstate highways or "transit backbones" which are owned and operated BY THE STATE/FEDERAL GOVERNMENT(s). Comparing Internet as an "interstate transit system" is rubbish.
I am allowed to have a highway and my community is ALLOWED to build/manage their own roads. Internet SHOULD be the same way, so the road paradigm doesn't fit.
*Need it
Alphabet = Innovative; modernized search, free mapping, Youtube, Chrome, good cloud apps, good phones, enabling low cost computing devices, pioneering self driving cars,
Amazon = Reinvented online shopping, Amazon Prime, Amazon Web Services, drone delivery please!
Apple = I like my iPhone; Android is an adequate OS, but no company supports their legacy phone hardware as long as Apple does. OSX is solid. I could easily use a Mac for 99% of everything I need to do on a computer
*Don't need it
Microsoft - Even though I use it EVERY DAY, there are some great alternatives, especially in the consumer space. ChromeOS does 95% of everything I need on a daily basis.
Facebook - I have never used it and I don't care to
It takes good teachers to make a program successful. Is there even such thing as CS Education being taught as a degree program? Who will teach the material? Ex-programmers? Media Specialists?
My point is that no matter how much it is or isn't needed, it will be doomed to failure because there will be huge disparity in how it is taught. Even with the same course material.
Much like the wow factor when seeing sodium react to water, exposing kids to a subject such as programming will need to be done in a way that is very engaging and captivating. Not making a computer display "hello world" but with something like Lego Mindstorm so that kids see a physical object being manipulated by their "code."
It could be successful and interesting, but it will take some very "outside the box" thinking to have proper absorption by kids.
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IT: We want to prevent problems before they happen! Accounting: How much will that cost? IT: Less than paying for a security breach + fines Accounting: What if a breach never happens? What would we have to get in that scensario? IT: Well. . . Accounting: I'll allocate you the money to pretend it will never happen. Good luck!
My driveway interconnects with roads that interconnect interstate highways or "transit backbones" which are owned and operated BY THE STATE/FEDERAL GOVERNMENT(s). Comparing Internet as an "interstate transit system" is rubbish. I am allowed to have a highway and my community is ALLOWED to build/manage their own roads. Internet SHOULD be the same way, so the road paradigm doesn't fit.
*Need it Alphabet = Innovative; modernized search, free mapping, Youtube, Chrome, good cloud apps, good phones, enabling low cost computing devices, pioneering self driving cars, Amazon = Reinvented online shopping, Amazon Prime, Amazon Web Services, drone delivery please! Apple = I like my iPhone; Android is an adequate OS, but no company supports their legacy phone hardware as long as Apple does. OSX is solid. I could easily use a Mac for 99% of everything I need to do on a computer *Don't need it Microsoft - Even though I use it EVERY DAY, there are some great alternatives, especially in the consumer space. ChromeOS does 95% of everything I need on a daily basis. Facebook - I have never used it and I don't care to
It takes good teachers to make a program successful. Is there even such thing as CS Education being taught as a degree program? Who will teach the material? Ex-programmers? Media Specialists? My point is that no matter how much it is or isn't needed, it will be doomed to failure because there will be huge disparity in how it is taught. Even with the same course material. Much like the wow factor when seeing sodium react to water, exposing kids to a subject such as programming will need to be done in a way that is very engaging and captivating. Not making a computer display "hello world" but with something like Lego Mindstorm so that kids see a physical object being manipulated by their "code." It could be successful and interesting, but it will take some very "outside the box" thinking to have proper absorption by kids.