computer education (modest proposal) 

I think that modern computer education is wrong and bad and I have a modest proposal/bad idea to fix it:

Teach computer science via living computer history.

Start folks off on (modern recreations of) early computers. Make them qualify by submitting a program on punch cards before graduating to a serial terminal.

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computer education (modest proposal) 

@ajroach42 a computer science professor at university of york always did just that. He collects big old machines. He’s recently got an old Elliot machine working again that has a loudspeaker to listen to the processor for debugging. So slow you can hear when it goes wrong.

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@realmattseymour @ajroach42 Well anyone that has operated a machine with a floppy drive could tell whether the application loaded correctly or not by the noise the machine made...
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