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I feel like general #computing education has kinda been squandered the last few decades. It really took off during the Home Computing Revolution, and then started to wane after that. I'm glad that there are initiatives to teach kids how to code and work with hardware like the Raspberry #Pi though. I just wish the Raspberry Pi was completely open, cuz last time I read that the GPU was closed source. What are y'alls thoughts on computer education?
@vfrmedia That's good. What are your thoughts on that style of computing education? Do you think it's pretty good?
@fuuko its very similar to what I got in 1980s but with "prettier" graphics.
I'm not sure if it gets geoblocked outside UK but if not you can view the material here:
@fuuko 30 years ago the BBC Micro's design was not open either - Acorn were very pro capitalism/protecting intellectual property (ironically also selling many computers to schools funded by British taxpayer), but hackers soon reverse engineered a lot of it (by 1984/5 from memory)
UK does seem to be doing a lot to "return to 1980s" level of education (the BBC education website for instance has some good tutorials about basic computer science, aimed at high school kids)