You know, the things kids like to reverse engineer are rarely covered by DRM or the DMCA. With software becoming more and more complicated, kids will rarely reverse-engineer big copyrighted projects. It's more likely the Firefox code they'll download and analyze. Open-source software, and the availability of it, is helping (potential) programmers a lot.
Of course, this still falls short of quick'n'easy compilers and such. I remember I had to dig around on the Win98 install disc to find QBASIC.
/* Most of the kids on the team always talk about how they love to watch TV, play their video games, listen to their ipods etc */
Soon enough, you'd think they're all the same.
What usually happens is, they stop cutting out cardboard boxes and start watching TV.
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Of course, this still falls short of quick'n'easy compilers and such. I remember I had to dig around on the Win98 install disc to find QBASIC.
What usually happens is, they stop cutting out cardboard boxes and start watching TV.
So it is the current that tends to kill.
Those open-source idiots... Even our writing has fallen to them! Help!