I’ve been mentoring my 10-year-old nephew in programming. Some impressions (thread):
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One interesting conversation we had last week was around copyright. He was worried about other people stealing his drawings! I tried to explain the difference between the copyright/patent mentality and the CC/open source mentality. He 100% wanted his IP locked down
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I hope this is something he’ll come to understand differently as he gets older. What a compliment it is to be copied! But I also remember liking that feeling of ownership when I was younger. I wanted to slap a © on everything I made! I wonder where that came from.....
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Today I showed him the Chrome “inspect element”/dev tools console. It’s great to be able to tweak things and watch the page react instantly. But it’s also crazy just how complicated the modern web has become.
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I don’t know how to strike the right balance between the precision and intelligibility of low-level tooling (e.g. HTML) vs. the power of high-level tooling (e.g. a template language + CSS). How important is it these days to understand the web from the bottom up?
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(Also, I realize that one person’s “bottom layer” is another person’s towering abstraction. Even raw HTML is impossible far from the metal. But at least it’s a consistent/coherent/portable technology, unlike much of what gets written on top of it.)
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Anyway, that’s all for now. More later I hope. Thanks for letting me brain-dump!
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I made a file of newspaper clippings

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please tell me you still have this!!
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