IDLE (with my IdleStart shortcut ) is still a pretty great REPL, editor, and runner. For a while it looked like every computer would have a good version, but then between the Python 2/3 fiasco and hardening systems, you mostly get an old Python shipped on platform, and have to manually install from. Two generations are completely illiterate in the language of their ancestors. We had a lingua franca, including the first 15 years of personal computing, that could be taught in a few hours and immediately used practically, and then it vanished almost utterly in the late '90s. Certainly Brin's solution of just buying an old computer is a popular one nowadays. Why Johnny Can't Code, by David Brin: Terribly overwrought, almost completely ignored available solutions (even in the dark ages of 2006), but there's a point down there somewhere.Dartmouth's BASIC at Fifty site from 2014: May 1st, 1964.Author mdhughes Posted on Categories BASIC, books, computers, philosophy, retrocomputing Tags BASIC, books, computers, philosophy, retrocomputing BASIC at 57 Now that I can just point you at the original, that gets easier. I have a much longer draft of notes about it, that I'll probably finish up at some point. But at least he managed to publish this, unlike Xanadu which took 50 years to ship nothing. Be aware.Īlso, cover price $7 in 1974 is $37.61 in 2021, not $120, as Ted currently charges for a photocopy on his website. Unredacted 1st ed, includes some very… Ted Nelson is a white male born in the 1930s, his language about race and sex are, uh… not acceptable sometimes. Most people just use them as glorified TV sets and newspapers, mass media delivering people. Just because you have a computer or "smart" phone, doesn't mean you know anything about its operation, purpose, and purposes you can put it to. Illiteracy, a silly and dangerous ignorance. Just an aspect of everything, and not to know this is computer This book is therefore devoted to the premiseĬomputers are simply a necessary and enjoyable part of life, It's as if people couldn't tellĪpart camera from exposure meter or tripod, or car from truck Lumped together as "computer stuff," indistinct and beyond There are so many different things, and theirĭifferences are so important yet to the lay public they are Anything withīuttons or lights can be palmed off on the layman as aĬomputer. Is the public sense of confusion and ignorance. This book is a measure of desperation, so serious and abysmal
Notions develop about computers operating in fixed ways-and To explain things or answer your questions. The people who know about computers often seem unwilling You hear moreĪnd more about computers, but to most people it's just one bigīlur. This situation does not seem to be improving. Unfortunately, due to ridiculous historical circumstances,Ĭomputers have been made a mystery to most of the world. Fascinating time capsule, political tract about use of computers to control you (CYBERCRUD as he puts it).Īny nitwit can understand computers, and many do. The first personal computer book (before the Altair came out!), though the PCC Newsletters predates it (and he mentions them). Read it from either end, there's two coherent books written back-on-back like an Ace Double, happily you don't have to turn your monitor upside down. Computer Lib/Dream Machines, by Ted Nelson.Someone has finally uploaded a (possibly legal?) copy of to archive:
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