> The industry does not want you programming or creating, the industry wants you to be consuming
For this to be true, logically the tools to create smartphone programs would be fiercely protected and only available to the chosen few and smartphone OS developers would never in a million years promote learning how to program on their devices.
From my end it looks like the opposite of all of that is happening.
I went to a school in "THE GOLDEN AGE" of 8-bit micros and I was the only one out of 1,100 who used the single room of Apple IIs to type in BASIC programs.
My daughters went to a school that has classes on programming, including Android development.
Turbo Pascal used to be so expensive I couldn't afford it.
Android studio is $0.00 and the (free) resources for development that apple and google openly distribute make many of my college classes look pathetic.
For this to be true, logically the tools to create smartphone programs would be fiercely protected and only available to the chosen few and smartphone OS developers would never in a million years promote learning how to program on their devices.
From my end it looks like the opposite of all of that is happening.
I went to a school in "THE GOLDEN AGE" of 8-bit micros and I was the only one out of 1,100 who used the single room of Apple IIs to type in BASIC programs.
My daughters went to a school that has classes on programming, including Android development.
Turbo Pascal used to be so expensive I couldn't afford it.
Android studio is $0.00 and the (free) resources for development that apple and google openly distribute make many of my college classes look pathetic.