John Olinda
Every time I see a new language, library, or *-processor I just start feeling old.
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Nkrs
Similar feeling: my response to new tech is gradually moving from "impressed" to "irritated".
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John Olinda
It's just getting exhausting. I'm assembling the curriculum for the second half of my technology course and just thinking, what's the point of teaching them these new things? They'll all get superseded in a few months anyway. That's why I'm just sticking with giving them a solid foundation in the basics and the thinking behind it, so that they're prepared to handle whatever comes their way later. I'd rather have students who are good at learning than experts in fads.
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😀 Tom
That, and you have to learn to be content with what you already have. Having the latest and greatest device with the brand new X feature is awesome, but does it really add to your life? All these new devices are tempting, but 3 months, 6 months, and at least every year, there will always be a newer, better device. If one keeps trying to chase those, it's money, time, and happiness all down the drain. Too many people buy into marketing, hype, and social expectations; and it's detrimental.
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Nkrs
That's a good way to think - teaching people skills that are applicable everywhere. I wish there is more sense in constructing computer-related programs. In high school, we were taught C# (and also Java in a separate course), only because knowing it was good for getting a job then, but the tasks we were solving were better suited for a language like Python or Scheme: read in some data, map / filter / reduce, print result. The result was that people got to know the Visual Studio and C# well, but often didn't understand the domain of the problem they were solving, or where to go from X to reach Y.
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