All of these “low cost” computing efforts purport to do something to aid in the education of ‘the chilruns.”
This one claims to want to assist in teaching children to “program.”
Well, I’m going to piss on the parade here. Most kids who don’t know squat about math make lousy programmers. And this device won’t do squat to teach children math.
In general, the best programmers and software jocks I know came from the era when we had to use batch processing on mainframes. This forced a programmer to desk-check their work, otherwise a card run would be wasted on things like syntax errors and easily found logic errors. Batch processing was to teaching programmers what single shot rifles are to teaching marksmanship. They force a person to actually *think* about what they’re doing, and then do it for effect.
I couldn’t agree more.