Month: October 2018

Frameworks as a rule don’t teach you anything new about programming. This is almost by design.

Frameworks as a rule don’t teach you anything new about programming. This is almost by design.

Using a framework will never teach you things that will make you a better programmer.

Except React.

React is a framework that will teach you new things and using it will definitely make you a better programmer.

https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-intro.html

Explaining microprocessors to people in 1982-83

Explaining microprocessors to people in 1982-83

This illustration is a composite of sketches Ken Stone and I made to attempt to explain the workings of CPUs and machine code to hobbyists back in the early 80s.

This was published in issue 10 of Talking Electronics in early 83 to go with our TEC-1 computer kit. For a few years the TEC-1 was the cheapest, most accessible way for Australian hobbyists to enter the mysterious world of computing.

Before long of course that space would be filled with consumer systems that could actually do things that were useful apart from just learning how to program.