Such a great reply. It goes without saying that I do not intend to force programming upon my kids. It's more about me being worried that nowadays it's much harder for them to just start by themselves as I did.
When I was writing my first lines of code there was no distraction in form of social media apps and the technologies were pretty simple and accessible.
If you now aim to create a webpage which you say least resemble what you are used to seeing on the web, uploading an HTML to a popular free hosting sites is just not enough.
I would like my kids find their way to whatever they like to do. I am worried though that they will waste their time even worse than I did back in my days, because the web is more addictive and getting involved in creating it is much more difficult then ever before.
The web is no longer dominated by amateurs and DIY projects.
But Youtube and TicTock and Facebook and Instagram are...not that those are what the kids are on much.
Creative opportunities abound and are more accessible than ever before...an iPhone shoots 4k stabilized video, has a linear editor, and GarageBand. Of course it can't compete with today's Hollywood. And that's how the web has become...except that we haven't had a century of people finding a non-corporate aesthetic for web content....we haven't had a century to develop a cultural eye for non-professional websites in the way we have for moving images.
When I was writing my first lines of code there was no distraction in form of social media apps and the technologies were pretty simple and accessible.
If you now aim to create a webpage which you say least resemble what you are used to seeing on the web, uploading an HTML to a popular free hosting sites is just not enough.
I would like my kids find their way to whatever they like to do. I am worried though that they will waste their time even worse than I did back in my days, because the web is more addictive and getting involved in creating it is much more difficult then ever before.