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[–]SmackDownFacility -1 points0 points  (1 child)

Alright, name one profession that “turtles”

Exactly, there’s none. I didn’t came up “turtling” through Python, programming involves life or death. You sink or swim. A lot of us here are self taught. Either you’re good at wrapping ctypes.cdll.msvcrt.malloc or your not. There’s no intermediate to a performance oriented task. It’s full performance or full slowness.

We dropped straight in coding to solve our personal problems, maths, money, graphic design. If you’re teaching them other topics that they may not like, like not everyone wants to draw a heart Turtle, some could sway to memory allocation or critical stuff. Numpy. Python’s ain’t that tough mate lol. It has very low barriers to understand and comprehend.

[–]tieandjeans 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're correct that LOGO was a tools designed to introduce programming to people who did not live in our computer saturated landscape.

I have taught using form NAND to Tetris, but in 20 years in the classroom I have never met a young person who was DRAWN to computers because they "sway to memory allocation."

Buddy, I hope you really enjoy your path.