Geez, sometimes (actually most of the time) I'm happy that I started electronics and embedded programming more than 35 years ago. At that time I would go to the library and bring stacks of books with me home, study them for weeks and actually LEARN something by myself. That were the days of "Databooks", books with component data that you would kill to get enough of (occupying meters after meters of shelf space!)
Today it seems that at least some people just get on the 'net and scratch the surface, copy a few bits here and there, ask for some help and thats it. YOU WILL NOT LEARN ANYTHING from that, other than using google....
Sorry for letting steam out, I hope it is just me and that I have completely misunderstood the world as it is today..... And sorry for being an old fart.... ;)
"comments alluding the damaging effect of Google"
Nobody blamed google!
The problem is not google.
This article explains some of the problem:
www.telegraph.co.uk/.../The-Apprentice-2011-Lord-Sugar-why-The-Apprentice-has-a-brand-new-job-to-do.html
“The blokes who invented Google or the fellow who invented Facebook... all great stories, unbelievable. And that is the problem – every kid jumps out of bed on a Monday morning thinking, ‘That’s what I want to do.’ They don’t realise there is a one in a billion chance of it taking off.”
So many people nowadays think it's oh so easy.
Sooner or later, people will learn things from Siri (Apple), Cortana (Microsoft), or Watson (IBM), and build their computers using LEGO style components within several minutes, like Project Ara or Sole Notebook.
All they/we have is not magic, but science; different words, meaning the same thing.
Forgot the link:
Sole Notebook Wants to be Your Modular Laptop the-digital-reader.com/.../
I see all of this is getting more and more true, impressive so many trying to have their schoolwork done by readers of this forum...