Teaching kids to hack
Training a new breed of hacker is the kind of article which if I had a side blog I would post in it. As I don’t have a side blog, it falls to me to say in a full-blown entry that this is the kind of thing I wish we could learn at school (and perhaps I will still learn at university). It seems to me that this would be far more useful than yet another lesson spent in GCSE IT classes letting people design pointless Publisher brochures which almost exclusively contain far too many different fonts, swathes of inappropriate and clashing colours and generally waste ink and teacher marking time. At least on my GNVQ IT course we got to do useful things…
Matthew @ 19:18, April 11, 2005 to Geek | Comments (7)
Comments:
Sheepie
ahemunit1ahem
Comment added at 21:31, April 11, 2005
Cat
Hear hear! I hated GCSE ICT!
Comment added at 22:22, April 11, 2005
Matthew
In my day Unit 1 of the GNVQ was useful (though dull and drawn out). Sort of.
Comment added at 22:45, April 11, 2005
Sheepie
You mean you actually learnt something from it that you couldn’t do already?
Comment added at 12:29, April 12, 2005
Matthew
It gave me an opportunity to practise what I already knew. It’s not often a 15 year old has to create a letterhead or minutes for a meeting…
Comment added at 15:13, April 12, 2005
Dj
For some reason the entire world of hacking just blows my mind and i get more and more interested about it each and every time a read an article on hacking or seeing a movie about hacking basically im asking to be mentored in this skill im 14 years old n im extremely eager to learn
Comment added at 06:06, April 24, 2005
Matthew
Well, I’m not the best to teach hacking as I’m in need of a teacher myself really. I’ve learnt a lot through installing Gentoo Linux and through reading articles (O’Reilly are excellent). Here’s a couple of links to help you:
Comment added at 18:58, April 26, 2005
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