[Gllug] App development for children

[John Hearns]

Yesterday's Evening Standard carried an article on Nick Cleggs speech
at the Google conference.
All schoolchildren are to be trained in how to develop 'apps' for
iPhone and Blackberry.

Does this fill you with depression also? Teaching the next generation
to parrot the developments of this generation,
because its successful, innit?

Why not give the children the 20 quid development boards that the
Register has recently been talking about?
Sure, 99% of them will be never used or underused. But that 1% will
result in at least some pupils taking up engineering as a career,
and maybe in the next wave of innovations.

And is not not odd that a story on a Google conference mentions IOS
and Blachberry apps but not Android?
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