Bear in mind that this is from the guy who wrote Elite: a game that managed to combine high-res graphics/two colours and low-res graphics/4 colours on the same screen (saving valuable graphics memory on a 32K machine) by repeatedly changing video mode, using precise timing, depending on where the electron beam of your monitor happened to be. Top of the screen: we're in black and white high-res mode, so we can show detailed wireframe 3D. 2/3rds of the way down: switch to colours chunky mode, so we can show a colour-coded control panel. And do this every single screen refresh, without fail.
What I'm saying is: the guy has previous.
(Well, him and Ian Bell. I don't know who wrote what in Elite.)
braben is also right about the emphsis on *using* rather than *understanding* tech.
teaching fundamentals is made even harder by the extreme disinterest many/most students show in such things. they all want to be internet billionaires, without any effort or knowledge...
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Date: 2011-05-06 07:22 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-06 10:38 pm (UTC)What I'm saying is: the guy has previous.
(Well, him and Ian Bell. I don't know who wrote what in Elite.)
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Date: 2011-05-07 06:10 am (UTC)teaching fundamentals is made even harder by the extreme disinterest many/most students show in such things. they all want to be internet billionaires, without any effort or knowledge...