[Infowarrior] - Why kids don't program

[Richard Forno]

Interesting blog post about the role of computers and programming today:

http://johnlawrenceaspden.blogspot.com/2009/11/behold-in-its-full-glory-program-that-i.html

(I remember doing the exact same things on my old Apple IIe)

The last few paragraphs are particularly disturbing and I suspect a  
logical consequence of the Information Revolution --

"The reason that I mention this is that 27 years ago, a twelve year  
old child with a new toy and a shiny orange paperback that told him  
how to use it could draw the graph of sin, and then play with the  
program to get more interesting programs.

Whereas now, in 2009, a forty year old professional computer  
programmer sitting in front of a box at least 1000 times more powerful  
with a screen one hundred times the size that can display millions of  
colours is having to google for how to do it."