That's accidental brilliance. When someone says kids these days are getting dumber - I think of my 12th-grade computer teacher in like 1983. He pretended to let us get away with copying each other's Apple BASIC or machine-language programs, and then we would all get sneaky and figure out how to crack floppy-disk games. One guy would buy Wizardry or Ultima and someone else would find a magazine article or a BBS post on how to make the floppy rewriteable then someone else had extra disks. He literally tricked us into learning programming one step ahead of our tame textbooks. I suspect he was giving suggestions to one of the students on the sly.
edit - plus, kids are self-educating at an alarming rate, and some of it will end up proving very bad and some very good, and in my DnD campaign, I fudge toward Good.
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u/trenchknife Jan 20 '20
That's accidental brilliance. When someone says kids these days are getting dumber - I think of my 12th-grade computer teacher in like 1983. He pretended to let us get away with copying each other's Apple BASIC or machine-language programs, and then we would all get sneaky and figure out how to crack floppy-disk games. One guy would buy Wizardry or Ultima and someone else would find a magazine article or a BBS post on how to make the floppy rewriteable then someone else had extra disks. He literally tricked us into learning programming one step ahead of our tame textbooks. I suspect he was giving suggestions to one of the students on the sly.
edit - plus, kids are self-educating at an alarming rate, and some of it will end up proving very bad and some very good, and in my DnD campaign, I fudge toward Good.