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Discussion on: What If Coding Classes Were Mandatory?

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Jan Küster 🔥

In my school we programmed super-boring stuff with turbo pascal in the most non-intuitive way ever.
Trust me, even the computer nerds were demotivated by all this. I just can imagine how all the non-tech persons would have been even more scared off by all this and many career choices would have ended up very different IMO.

However, there were also fun parts, like a good friend finding out that net send * was not blocked and he sent a friendly moo to all machines in the school network.... 🙈

I am pro digital education but to me it's more important for "the masses" to learn about privacy, data sovereignty, how the web works (and how it not works), implications of releasing any information on the web or why mobile phones are basically mobile wiretaps....

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Alexander B.K.

Yeah... net send
Prior to this Microsoft based command of message sending, there was a similar command on Novel Netware OS, but I don't remember the exact command.