> Writing a toy program that fills the screen with "HELLO, I AM COMPUTER" does not feel like you just learned a magical incantation that makes this machine do your bidding.
No, but in the 80s, when the guy at Radio Shack didn't know how to stop it, it was still worth it somehow.
What can your kid do to assert some goofy kind of power in today's adult world?
In retrospect, I realize that the part you quoted might sound like I felt that toy programs like that weren't magical, when I was a kid. On the contrary, I'm trying to say that they don't feel like magic in today's world.
No, but in the 80s, when the guy at Radio Shack didn't know how to stop it, it was still worth it somehow.
What can your kid do to assert some goofy kind of power in today's adult world?