Subj : Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : Dr. What
From : Adept
Date : Thu Feb 08 2024 02:12 pm

 DW> Yup.  Plus having teachers who have spent some time in the corporate
 DW> world would have been very helpful.  I don't think I've ever had a
 DW> teacher that hadn't spent his whole career in academia.

That _does_ make sense, though that sort of thing is so hard -- teaching _is_ a skill, so it kind of becomes like training an astronaut to drill, or teaching drillers to be an astronaut.

(Bad example, awful movie (because of the science), but I think it conveys the idea)

But you either wind up with someone who never learned to teach, or someone who never had corporate experience. Or someone who spent a few years changing careers when they could've just continued working in the field.

 DW> My dad taught 8th grade science, so I was exposed to that at a very
 DW> early age. That laid the base for me when he bought home a TRS-80 Model
 DW> I for the summer.

That makes sense. My dad got a computer early on (I vaguely remember the purchase, and looking _up_ at the store counter), and I think having to understand how a computer works helped with gaining various repair logic skills. And with those skills I started doing tech support at least by 5th grade when I got called out of a class to fix a computer.

And, while I pride myself in being able to explain technical things to less-technically-inclined people, I've never had the slightest clue on how to get people to _think_ in that sort of fashion, even for people who do well with logic outside of the computer realm.

I imagine that early exposure helps, though, in my case, it might have been due to exposure to so many other things, including being around autistic people.

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