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Oct 11Another Steve jobs post
Ever since Steve Jobs’ death there has been an inordinate number of people waxing philosophical on the net about his passing. First the endless links to his Stanford speech (oh what the hell, I’ll add one more, it was quite great), then the stories deifying him as if a great spiritual leader had died (well the man was always quite quotable).Next was the backlash, stories about his personal life and business practices, people railing against his Stanford speech, saying that it’s ‘idealistic fluff’ or that it’s “nice but doesn’t work for the majority of the public”. I even had a friend say that the speech was “far too first-world-centric” for his tastes. Growing up in Cupertino I do have a long history with apple and I do have feelings towards towards both sides of the argument, however something about apple that had a profound effect on my life is something that I’ve seen little written about.
The apple classroom of tomorrow(ACOT) program was a research project started in 1985 which ran for ten years. It’s purpose was to explore the possibilities of computers in the learning process. I spent 6 years in that program and through the process I wrote my first BASIC program, worked with robots, and learned how to express complex ideas through hypermedia(HyperCard). Looking back on it now, I feel like the program was an example of one of the things that I admire most about Steve Jobs’ interests and Apple’s underlying philosophy, it’s the idea that showing the average person how using a computer can be empowering and fun is an important thing. I know that Steve Jobs didn’t invent the personal computer, but he sure tried his best to bring it to the masses and get them interested in it. Thanks Mr. Jobs and I hope that as a software engineer I can carry on that idea myself.
March 12th, 2014 at 10:12 am
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November 13th, 2014 at 2:00 pm
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