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Apple brings coding to the iPad with Swift Playground
Your ideas are outmoded. People are NOT born with innate strengths and weaknesses. Abilities are fostered and developed through socialisation, child development and the educational system. From birth everyone has a chance to develop abilities you claim are out of reach. Everyone isn't a mathematician, engineer, or artist, but every child has a chance to become one, given the right circumstances.wizard69 said:
I'm not sure where the idea that every kid needs to learn coding came from. It is almost as stupid as learning a second language for every kid in school, it really serves no purpose. I think it is a liberal thing where everybody born has the same sets of skills and abilities in their minds. People need to instead realize that people are born with innate strengths and weaknesses, not everyone is a mathematician, nor does everyone have the ability to be an engineer or create fine art.mdriftmeyer said:It is fun. This is complex stuff that being trivialized only adds frustration to the kid [who Tim thinks every kid should become a programmer: an absolutely terrible fantasy] when they discover they cannot master it.
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Despite Q2 sales dip, Apple's Macs, iPad and iPhone continue to outperform the industry
You think he's defending Apple, which needs no defense. I think he's exposing the pundits, who do need exposing.ireland said:No offence Dan, but all these posts do is make me think you're a shareholder. There's no need to defend how Apple is doing—as a business they are doing impossibly well. No amount of posts are going to quell Wall St. greed. The only thing will do that are new regulations and prison time for those who step out of line and do very dodgy things like what happened before the housing market collapsed.
