Obama Wants All Americans to Learn Code

Posted by $ Mimi 11 years, 4 months ago to Education
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I don’t think any big push to teach students to write code is going to save that crappy website at this late date. Poor misguided fool.


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  • Posted by $ Maphesdus 11 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    What? No, of course not. How in the world did you get "theft is okay" out of "computer science is important"?
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  • Posted by Bobhummel 11 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    As is always the case with looters like BHO, he can't do anything except demand that the producers make his wishes come true. He wants his POS website to work so therefore it will work perfectly ...if only the people with the brains to make it work,who actually know what they are doing and making a productive living would stop objecting to his statist policies and get on board and fix it. It is all our fault that his shit doesn't work. This is simply placing "a wish" above "it is". HE takes his emotion as a cause and he uses his emotions as a tool for perceiving reality. Statist morons like BHO say "I want it, therefore it is. This total disregard for reality and logic will be the destruction of our society.
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  • Posted by fairbro 11 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    So when an amateur writes code for website and hackers steal my credit card info, that's fine?
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  • Posted by UncommonSense 11 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Now that's going back to 1998/9. My first computer was a COMPAQ AMD K6-2 @ 400 MHz, with the Windows 98, BLOD edition. I upgraded from the on-board video ram of 8MB to a whopping 32MB on a PCI card. Back in those days, upgrading a COMPAQ was PITA.

    I hadn't thought of it until you mentioned the specs. Wow. Currently however, I'm typing this out on my now 7 year old Lenovo laptop. While I regularly patch, I don't upgrade the H/W too often. Who wants to be surrounded by all the H/W that stacks up after awhile?
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  • Posted by DavRPeters 11 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Ever since programmers began to call themselves programmer analysts (and the companies that hired them thought they were getting a deal), the quality of software went down. Once they were subject to supervision again, the quality went up.
    Way too many sites are not properly supervised even today.
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  • Posted by Hiraghm 11 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I want to someday get either a Raspberry Pi or Beaglebone, put it in a model 100 case (or build a case in that form-factor).

    I love the TRS-80 model 100 for it's full stroke keyboard, and slab form-factor. The only downside for me is the slow refresh on the display. If I could find a standard, full stroke keyboard that could fit in that size case, and a VGA-capable display in the dimensions of the original Model 100 display, I would stick either the Pi or the Beaglebone in it, load some flavor of Linux OTHER THAN UBUNTU on it, and be happier than a character in a Geico commercial.
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  • Posted by Hiraghm 11 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That explains why prices on old hardware just keep going up. :(

    I've a 300 mhz K6-2 sitting behind me with DOS 6.22 and Win 3.11 on it, A Voodoo 2 video card and Soundblaster Awe 32 in it, for those fits of nostalgia moments. One of my top bookmarks is to the Abandonia site for old games. It's nice being able to play old DOS games I either couldn't afford at the time, or never heard of. And http://Abandonia.com doesn't distribute games unless they're released by the publisher for redistribution.

    I'd like to get me an Apple IIe platinum, and a Mac SE/30 (never had the former, wish I hadn't sold the latter), but prices are just way, way too high right now :(
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  • Posted by UncommonSense 11 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Coding isn't a part of kommon kore (spelling it correctly doesn't matter anymore, only HOW you arrived at the answer, that's what counts), however, since you bring it up, the idea of learning the kids learning computer science after having been indoctrinated for over 12 years in the publik shcool system of kk, is as likely to happen as either of us winning the next megamillions.
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  • Posted by Hiraghm 11 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    But he just SAID that everyone should learn to code, which equals "everyone should learn how to program". Which is saying that "Computer science = programming".

    You want to get into the game development business? You don't have to learn to program at all. You can get a job as a 3d modeler, as a texture artist, 2d artist, animator, musician, composer, set designer, writer, director, accountant, marketer...

    The computer science industry is much broader than just writing code, and encompasses everything from game development to database development to chip manufacturing to hardware repair and maintenance, to customer support... on and on.
    What he was doing with this video is what he does with everything; try to make himself the Dalai Lama, the messiah, the benevolent lord and master who knows everything and should control and direct every aspect of American life...
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  • Posted by j_IR1776wg 11 years, 4 months ago
    See if more Americans would have learned to code, the Obamacare website project would have been coded by Americans. But since we are all so F***ing uneducated, he had to give the job to a Canadian company. Does anyone know if coding is part of Common Core?
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  • Posted by Hiraghm 11 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    He said everyone should learn to code... programming is a very small subset of computer science. I mean, does he really need to make yet another public statement demonstrating his ignorance of yet another subject?
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  • Posted by Hiraghm 11 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Apparently the need for you to "get it".
    If he wanted to say computer science was important, he should have talked about the importance of computer science. Not every computer scientist has to be a coder, nor ever coder a computer scientist. Again, to elicit another metaphor, it's like confusing a bricklayer with a building contractor. Like saying cities are important, so everybody should study subway construction.
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  • Posted by $ Maphesdus 11 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Hiraghm's assertion was stating the obvious. What need was there for context?
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  • Posted by $ Maphesdus 11 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I agree. I don't get why people are picking on this video. If you want to criticize Obama, then criticize him for something that's actually legitimate.
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  • Posted by Eudaimonia 11 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    No, I expect him to be a bloviating Marxist fuckputz.

    I was giving context to Hiraghm's assertion.
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  • Posted by Rozar 11 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I'm so sick of this argument. Do you expect him to make an hour long video going over every single piece of information one needs to know to be good at computer science? Is that the only way to make this video valuable? It's the dumbest thing I've ever heard to say that something is invalid because it failed to examine every conceivable detail that might effect the outcome.
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  • Posted by $ Maphesdus 11 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That's definitely true, but the purpose of this video was not to go into detail about everything computer science involves. All Obama was trying to do was say that computer science is important and that learning to use computers is an essential skill for everyone's future. I mean, come on, the video was only a minute long. Do you really expect him to list every single field and technical niche in the entire computer industry?
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  • Posted by $ Maphesdus 11 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Totally agree. I'm all in favor of criticizing politicians when they make mistakes or say stupid things, but criticizing a politician for saying that computer science is important just makes the critic look dumb.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 11 years, 4 months ago
    I wholeheartedly agree with everything he said in this video.

    I think maybe it's even a good thing for a gov't leader to say. As a politician, he can't "create jobs", but a teenager or anyone else who knows how to code and has passion for solving problems can!

    Way to go, President Obama, on this statement!
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  • Posted by $ Maphesdus 11 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Except Obama didn't say that computer science only involved programming, or that everyone should become a programmer. He just said that computer science skills are going to be important in the future, which is completely true (heck, it's already true today). He mentioned programming, sure, but he did NOT say that programming was everything, or that computer science involved nothing else, and to interpret it that way is to inject into his message a meaning which simply wasn't there.

    Saying computer science is essential != saying everyone should learn how to program.

    Seriously... -_-
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  • Posted by Rozar 11 years, 4 months ago
    Takes on a different meaning when you look at him as a tax farmer.
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