I know if i stole a pizza (which i would only steal because i was starving), i'd be well disappointed if i found a damned laptop in there! Can you imagine? I'd have to find someone to sell the laptop to before i could get the money to buy a pizza.
I was first introduced to computers when i was 4 years old. I was blessed to be going to a school where the teachers had decided to put our story telling skills to the test by making us use a software program which gave us certain main blocks of a story (i.e. introductory paragraph, main body, conclusion), made us choose from different scenarios, and put it all together for us. If we were finished fast, we were allowed to play a game for the rest of the lesson. Needless to say i was often finished well before everyone else.
We left that country shortly after and my dad started really getting into computers. Of course we had the usual game consoles (who loved the Atari's??), but when he got the first computer in 1989, i remember us being strictly forbidden to touch it. That one soon died (god knows what he did to it) and the next one we got was in 1992. We were now allowed to touch the sacred machine but only when my father was present. The rest of the time it was locked away and only he had the key.
I was already very curious about how this whole thing worked and by the time we got our 3rd computer (this time with an internet connection!!) i was taking computer studies classes in school which taught us BASIC and the rudiments of computers in general.
We left the country we were living in at that time and ended up in a place where schools did not have computer labs and even if you did like computers, by the end of high school you were strongly encouraged to forget about them, and directed towards law, medicine or tourism in university.
Well i did my piece but ended up hating what i was studying because i knew i didn't like it. When i finally told my parents i wanted to study computer science there was quite a silence, then my mom came out with "But honey, you're a girl!"
They had always been against me staying in my room for long periods of time, in front of my computer. I know i'm not the only one who has had to suffer the "But we never see you anymore" speech. I eventually managed to convince them to let me try it out in university, and i don't regret it one bit.
As for my own children (whenever they would happen) i'm not sure. I think i'll just let it go the way they want (okay, they're not getting their own computer before 16 unless they can pay for it). If they feel compelled to study that branch of science then go for it, if not, i won't be disappointed. And if my daughters (oooooh girls!) decide that Comp Sci or anything relating to that is what they choose to do then good for them. I will encourage them as much as i can.
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I know if i stole a pizza (which i would only steal because i was starving), i'd be well disappointed if i found a damned laptop in there! Can you imagine? I'd have to find someone to sell the laptop to before i could get the money to buy a pizza.
I was first introduced to computers when i was 4 years old. I was blessed to be going to a school where the teachers had decided to put our story telling skills to the test by making us use a software program which gave us certain main blocks of a story (i.e. introductory paragraph, main body, conclusion), made us choose from different scenarios, and put it all together for us. If we were finished fast, we were allowed to play a game for the rest of the lesson. Needless to say i was often finished well before everyone else.
We left that country shortly after and my dad started really getting into computers. Of course we had the usual game consoles (who loved the Atari's??), but when he got the first computer in 1989, i remember us being strictly forbidden to touch it. That one soon died (god knows what he did to it) and the next one we got was in 1992. We were now allowed to touch the sacred machine but only when my father was present. The rest of the time it was locked away and only he had the key. I was already very curious about how this whole thing worked and by the time we got our 3rd computer (this time with an internet connection!!) i was taking computer studies classes in school which taught us BASIC and the rudiments of computers in general.
We left the country we were living in at that time and ended up in a place where schools did not have computer labs and even if you did like computers, by the end of high school you were strongly encouraged to forget about them, and directed towards law, medicine or tourism in university. Well i did my piece but ended up hating what i was studying because i knew i didn't like it. When i finally told my parents i wanted to study computer science there was quite a silence, then my mom came out with "But honey, you're a girl!"
They had always been against me staying in my room for long periods of time, in front of my computer. I know i'm not the only one who has had to suffer the "But we never see you anymore" speech. I eventually managed to convince them to let me try it out in university, and i don't regret it one bit.
As for my own children (whenever they would happen) i'm not sure. I think i'll just let it go the way they want (okay, they're not getting their own computer before 16 unless they can pay for it). If they feel compelled to study that branch of science then go for it, if not, i won't be disappointed. And if my daughters (oooooh girls!) decide that Comp Sci or anything relating to that is what they choose to do then good for them. I will encourage them as much as i can.
I never noticed this in Dublin (i'm the delicious belgian girlfriend), where exactly have you seen those?
Fairly interesting actually...