This recent notion that for some reason all children should learn coding is utterly ridiculous. They shouldn't, any more than we should try to make them all into concert pianists. What we should be doing is learning to identify the ones that have shown interest and ability at an early age by themselves, and then streaming and incentivising them throughout their education, end encouraging the Googles and so on to take a mentoring interest in them at 10 or 12 years old.
The other kids should of course be computer literate, know how to install software, fix basic issues and so on but this 'everyone must be a coder' thing is horseshite.
Agree 100%. I can't think of one example, all the way back to LOGO, where something like App Inventor succeeded in getting kids into programming. Because it's like playing the piano - any chump can sort of learn to do it, but the really good ones are born, not made, and they'll find their own path anyway. So something like the Pi has far more potential - stick PyGame or KidsRuby on it and let them hack away.
There's no point fighting with Access to try to make it do something it wasn't designed to do, namely large-scale multiuser access to a big database.
What you want is an easy-to-use RAD tool with the fastest native database in existence, namely Visual FoxPro 9. It will handle hundreds of users accessing GB's of data with no problem at all.
Yes, that's right, FoxPro, and despite VB people saying since 1994 that Fox is dead, the next version will be out soon and it's supported until 2015. Unlike VB6.
Also, it's number 12 on the Tiobe list of most popular languages - http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm/
Here's some more reasons why: http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~VisualFoxProBulle tPoints/
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It says right there on the bio page. That's a lot of technologies.
Nope, apparently Canadian authorities turned up some fake ID in a routine postal search.
This recent notion that for some reason all children should learn coding is utterly ridiculous. They shouldn't, any more than we should try to make them all into concert pianists. What we should be doing is learning to identify the ones that have shown interest and ability at an early age by themselves, and then streaming and incentivising them throughout their education, end encouraging the Googles and so on to take a mentoring interest in them at 10 or 12 years old. The other kids should of course be computer literate, know how to install software, fix basic issues and so on but this 'everyone must be a coder' thing is horseshite.
For fuck's sake - go and look up the definition of 'virus' as it pertains to computers.
The initial release is case-less 'developer boards'. There will be a cased version aimed at the UK and other educational markets shortly after.
Agree 100%. I can't think of one example, all the way back to LOGO, where something like App Inventor succeeded in getting kids into programming. Because it's like playing the piano - any chump can sort of learn to do it, but the really good ones are born, not made, and they'll find their own path anyway. So something like the Pi has far more potential - stick PyGame or KidsRuby on it and let them hack away.
There's no point fighting with Access to try to make it do something it wasn't designed to do, namely large-scale multiuser access to a big database. What you want is an easy-to-use RAD tool with the fastest native database in existence, namely Visual FoxPro 9. It will handle hundreds of users accessing GB's of data with no problem at all. Yes, that's right, FoxPro, and despite VB people saying since 1994 that Fox is dead, the next version will be out soon and it's supported until 2015. Unlike VB6. Also, it's number 12 on the Tiobe list of most popular languages - http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm/ Here's some more reasons why: http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~VisualFoxProBulle tPoints/