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I've been hearing stories like this for the last two or three years. Computer Science professors having to teach freshmen what a file system is. Are you ready for a world where the elderly dominate coding? 1/3

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Lesley Carhart

@hacks4pancakes

Oct 31, 2019

I’m reading this reddit where teachers are discussing the loss of basic computer & typing skills in kids today and it is *stunning*. Ability to use an intuitive smart device as intended doesn’t imply technical skill - apparently not even keyboard skill. reddit.com/r/AskReddit/co

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Samo Burja

@SamoBurja

Nov 1, 2019

The death of the desktop computer means autodidacticism at scale is over for coding. It will be either CS education or

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teaching coders of the next generation. People under 20 will natively understand photo, video and social media marketing however. 2/3

Samo Burja

@SamoBurja

Nov 1, 2019

I expect vastly fewer super star coders. The age of the exceptional software engineer is over. The ability to maintain large code bases will decay and legacy features and systems will fail noticeably: The equivalent of a Californian power outage but online. 3/3

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I often consider about how difficult it must be to absorb complex ideas at low reading speeds. Now I'm thinking about how hard it would be to reasonably code at typing speeds 2.5x slower due to touchscreens.

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I'm optimistic about both; as for the former, math pretty much forces you to read slowly, and for the latter, an IDE+language designed for touch input (especially multitouch) would probably use something richer than text

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I'm not exactly going to hold my breath until such a thing becomes usable though