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Originally posted by Marc Driftmeyer View Post
No we haven't. Hell, Apple has a global initiative for creating millions of future programmers with their Swift platform and XCode has this entire set up to do just that, not to mention every school now has access to it in the US and growing around the world. Sorry, but BASIC to make a text calculator or a schedule/grades report back when computing was a hobby and an insane amount of time wasting just to do that isn't what kids are learning today. More importantly, the idea that this world is lacking for programming is absurd.
We need to get them to understand the applied sciences [where everyone in them has to eventually learn 2 or 3 languages to do a lot of their data analysis and collection], not make everyone create social network apps, games, games, games!
By the way, a $300 laptop is a POS. Back in '89 my painful 80286 was $3k with 4MB of RAM. Schools are building out platforms for students. A better solution is to get the K-12 system to buy each kid a laptop as part of their curriculum ala Universities which add it to their tuition and fees. From there a more capable system can be purchased, a recycling system can be put into place and systems will be upgraded every 3-5 years until they graduate.
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Originally posted by sykobee View Post
It's based around an Asus E406MA- 14 inch laptop
- FullHD
- 1920x1080
- RAM: 4GB
- Color: Star Gray
- Up to 14 hours of battery life
- Weight: 2.86 lbs
- Ports: MicroSD, 2x USB 3.0, Headphone combo jack, HDMI
So it's a Celeron with 32GB eMMC - so I presume an Atom-based Celeron. It'll probably suck even for Minecraft TBH. They'll be asking for a proper console within a year, but at least they'll be able to type up their homework and do internet research.
How much was the first computer your parents bought you? $299 seems more than reasonable, assuming that what they are promising actually happens - otherwise you might as well just buy the original hardware, pre-customisation.
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Originally posted by Vistaus View Post
I beg to differ. In my country, there's more demand for software developers than we can offer, so they have to hire foreign people to do it, but even that's not enough. So yeah, in the right country, you *can* make money with software development. Barbers lol, well, in my country, there's a barber/hairdresser every three houses or so (not literally, but you get my point). So no need for those.
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