Does anyone else think that this Flappy type craze is going to help non-gamers come more and more into challenging games?
Like I've seen people playing more and more games in the last five years. I wonder if the tides are changing.
Like I've seen people playing more and more games in the last five years. I wonder if the tides are changing.
I tend to give that as the reason I started teaching myself programming, and later I won't allow my children to waste days playing games. But let them do more productive activities on the pc such as video-editing, messing with photoshop, chatting with foreigners (the good old days on IRC..)
But I totally agree, I hope I don't let me kids play as much games as I did. I got lucky, but everyone is different.
It didn't stick very long, but I hope I had some positive influence on their life in that aspect.
It is a very interesting subject though on how developers got into development! My first programming experiences was with mIRC and its funky scripting language to make simple irc bots.
I agree that whenever I have kids, I'll be sure to teach them coding or editing. The way society and the future job market is evolving, it looks like those tools will be way more beneficial then learning Spanish or French in high school. A moot point, but somewhat realistic.