Gregory's Server@blacklight @cybeej @Natanox - ...to teach them how computers "think", and therefore old tools like Z80 and 6502 Assembler, BASIC, Forth, and a few other contrived languages are helpful in instructing even if they're not used in the "real world" anymore. Then they also need to understand the fundamentals of how the Internet works; things like TCP/IP and ICMP, along with historically significant developments like AT&T T-Carrier, IS-IS, IPX, and Token Ring versus Ethernet.
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 @Natanox @blacklight @cybeej A "must read"? Well, that's a hard one. Let's just say it's a "strong buy". Anything by Heinlein or Niven or Asprin or Asimov is a "must read" or a "strong buy" in my book. @lorq @blacklight @cybeej @Natanox If you've not listened to "The Fall of Civilizations" Podcast, then you're losing some long form/history context for that statement! |
@blacklight @cybeej @Natanox - I think that Robert Heinlein pretty much addresses the core of this problem in Glory Road and the character Rufo has most of those answers for those of you who had the time and inclination to read while you were growing up.
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