Monday, June 13, 2005

Icculus Interview -- 8:35 am CST, Update by The Master

Phoronix posted an interview with Ryan C. Gordon, better known as Icculus. It's an interesting read. My favorite quote (since I'm a programmer and I completely agree):

I never received a "formal" computer education. I took AP Computer Science in high school, but really, that's a joke. I was working on how to coerce my programs into sending IPX packets while everyone else was struggling with "Hello World" in Turbo Pascal, which was a "serious" language at the time, I guess, as far as public school believed.

I hear that after that, the school switched to C++, so just to be clear, public schools haven't really improved their curriculum, they've just kept searching for credibility at the expense of their students. Giving new programming students of any age a "respectable" language isn't so much throwing them in a lake to see if they'll swim as it is throwing them off a cliff to see if they'll fly. They should swallow their pride and give them Logo or something similar. If they think that's not cool enough, then they should remind them that this is possibly the last time that programming will be about creation, exploration and fun. Debugging yet-another-linked-list-implementation really stopped feeling l33t almost immediately, in my opinion.

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