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Why Johnny can’t code

September 17th, 2006

David Brin laments the fact that modern computers are no good for kids wanting to learn to program, and explains why he bought his son Ben a $25 Commodore 64 from eBay.

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One Response to “Why Johnny can’t code”

  1. Jon Schwartz Says:
    September 27th, 2006 at 3:07 pm

    I thought I’d let you know that David Brin replied to my blog about his article with some clarification about “Why Johnny Can’t Code”. I’ve linked the blog exchange at my URL above. Seperately, from his web page: “What I didn’t expect was the flurry of intensely passionate replies!” :)

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