Ned Batchelder on Nostr: After seeing npub1sys4g…eckr3's comments on Alan Kay's history of Smalltalk, I read ...
After seeing npub1sys4gja5v6r2pmsyan8ntwye9txrhzfe6yq4rnjt8jf6vguujuas5eckr3 (npub1sys…ckr3)'s comments on Alan Kay's history of Smalltalk, I read the whole thing. It's insightful (in parts).
https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202308/alan_kays_objects_and_arts.html
"The reason many of us want children to understand computing deeply and fluently is that like literature, mathematics, science, music, and art, it carries special ways of thinking about situations that in contrast with other knowledge and other ways of thinking critically boost our ability to understand the world."
https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202308/alan_kays_objects_and_arts.html
"The reason many of us want children to understand computing deeply and fluently is that like literature, mathematics, science, music, and art, it carries special ways of thinking about situations that in contrast with other knowledge and other ways of thinking critically boost our ability to understand the world."