David Braben is a very well-known game developer who runs the UK development studio Frontier Developments, but is just as well known for being the co-developer of Elite...
Braben argues that education since we entered the 2000s has turned towards ICT which teaches useful skills such as writing documents in a word processor, how to create presentations, and basic computer use skills. But that has replaced more computer science-like skills such as basic programming and understanding the architecture and hardware contained in a computer.
As someone who bought a book and taught himself BASIC, I agree with him. Check out his solution.
2 comments:
Darren, that's way cool, thanks for the link. Would a device like this be useful in Middle School or is it more for High School or both?
Thanks.
It's a general purpose computer. The only thing it isn't is powerful enough to run really demanding stuff like advanced games and probably resource-intensive applications like movie-editing software. Even there it would run the software. It would just run slowly.
Pretty cool though.
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