Obama Wants All Americans to Learn Code

Posted by $ Mimi 10 years, 5 months ago to Education
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I don’t think any big push to teach students to write code is going to save that crappy website at this late date. Poor misguided fool.


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  • Posted by $ Abaco 10 years, 5 months ago
    I have no problem with that. I have pressed myself to learn my entire life. It has been a great adventure. Yeah, people need to learn. Good for the liar and chief.

    If he really wanted America to offer proactive learners more opportunity to earn more and provide for their families he'd roll back the tax burden on corporations and individuals.
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  • Posted by Eudaimonia 10 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    My only issue with RBP is that I am a big OpenBSD fan.

    OpenBSD has been pretty adamant that they will not support RBP.
    So I have to look at the micro platforms they do support.
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  • Posted by Rocky_Road 10 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Being female puts you in the 'catbird' seat...exploit it!

    Ignore the previous comments, and just agree that it is VERY good that the current Millennium Generation is awakening from their Progressive coma, and feeling the 'pain' of that ideology.

    The sugar in my past, has become the ACA in the present...and the toothache has got their attention. They are alive, and they have a voice, and they can reverse what they have done.

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  • Posted by jbaker 10 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    My first home computer was a TI-994A. My Father worked for Texas Instruments (so did I years later). That computer was way advanced for the day - it had speech synthesis .... impressed the hell out of my Grandmother!
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  • Posted by jbaker 10 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Love me some Raspberry Pi. I have one, haven't done a whole lot with it yet ... but quite interesting.
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  • Posted by $ Mimi 10 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That was deep and too way esoteric for me to extract the meaning from your first post. khaling was telling me to sew up my mouth because she is probably spewing wine all over her keyboard from laughing, and then you came along and said, “No, shoot up parasites” which I wasn’t sure where you were going with that and...

    Damn it, khaling! I am a female.
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  • Posted by Rocky_Road 10 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Neither did I.

    But, I am seeing a strange connect to what he was trying to do.

    ObamaCare is the 'sugar' being packed into the festering cavities of the Millennium Generation...and they are coming alive. Their pain is suddenly all too real, and that reality is more welcome than the 'drugged' out state they were in.

    The worm has turned....
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  • Posted by UncommonSense 10 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    nice pick up on the TRS-80. First gen and 2nd generation computers are totally vogue right now in the IT community. Got DOS to go with?
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  • Posted by Hiraghm 10 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    My first exposure to computers was on a TRS-80 model I with level II basic.

    My first computer was a Vic-20, followed by a C-64, followed by an SX-64 followed by an Amiga 1000, Toshiba T1100+, Amiga 2000, 3000, C-128, a 286 PC I built myself, and it goes downhill from there.


    Oh, and my latest acquisition a few months ago was a TRS-80 model 100...
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  • Posted by Eudaimonia 10 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    My home computer in the 80's was the Atari ST 1040.
    Bought a c compiler for it and was off to the races from there.

    My next home computer was the AT&T 3B1.
    That's right, full blown UNIX System V command line!

    Ah, the good old days.
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  • Posted by Hiraghm 10 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Good guess, but nope...

    Commodore, for the wonder computer of the 80s... the Vic-20.

    Which by today's standards was anything *but* user friendly, lol.
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  • Posted by $ Maphesdus 10 years, 5 months ago
    I actually agree with Obama on this particular point. Computer science is the future of not just American industry, but global industry. And if you don't get on board with that, and don't learn the technical skills necessary to succeed in the future, you're going to be left behind.
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  • Posted by Rocky_Road 10 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    But the question is: 'can you explain it?'

    Back in the drugged out '70's, I had a friend that would pack raw sugar into a tooth cavity that he had. He was 'tripping' on the 24/7 pain...said that it convinced him that he was still alive, and that he was "one" with the universe. I never got it.
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  • Posted by $ Mimi 10 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That was actually good way to put it and it wasn’t sexist in the least. +point.
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  • Posted by Eudaimonia 10 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    No googling?

    I'm going to take a shot and say Steve Jobs' NeXT where I believe "Insanely Great" was also coined.

    Side note: My first professional contract was on the NeXT. It was a great time.
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  • Posted by Hiraghm 10 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I have no problem with that. Some of the best, most reliable software out there is open source.

    I just wish Blender was more user-friendly*, and Gimp more like Photoshop.

    *trivia: what company coined the term "user-friendly", and for what product? Remember, Googling is cheating.. :)

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  • Posted by Hiraghm 10 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It's like saying military service is important, so everyone should learn to drive a tank.
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