Why I Hate Television
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@thanksaj said:
Ummm....they don't teach this kind of stuff in schools....even Web Design classes likely wouldn't have given someone the knowledge they needed to know the difference.
They do at every school I ever deal with. And going way back. Like mid 2000s. Very common.
They were teaching freshman basic web design in 1995 at liberal arts colleges that didn't have any tech programs.
You should know this when someone says "What is HTML5?" And the answer is "It's HTML, JavaScript and CSS as a single spec." You can't get past "what is it" without having the answer. You don't even need to know what they are for.
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Schools teach a lot of things these days. My niece takes robotics, for example. The one thing that they have lost is programming. You don't see that anymore. It was super common in the 1980s. By the 1990s, it was mostly gone. We've lost a big piece of the education that we used to have.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksaj said:
Ummm....they don't teach this kind of stuff in schools....even Web Design classes likely wouldn't have given someone the knowledge they needed to know the difference.
They do at every school I ever deal with. And going way back. Like mid 2000s. Very common.
They were teaching freshman basic web design in 1995 at liberal arts colleges that didn't have any tech programs.
You should know this when someone says "What is HTML5?" And the answer is "It's HTML, JavaScript and CSS as a single spec." You can't get past "what is it" without having the answer. You don't even need to know what they are for.
Yeah, hate to tell you this, but this is not in most primary or secondary school curriculum. Some, and only some, schools offer web design classes, but most focus on teaching you the basic of how to actually write the tags. They don't really explain what HTML, or CSS, or Javascript, are.
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@thanksaj said:
Yeah, hate to tell you this, but this is not in most primary or secondary school curriculum. Some, and only some, schools offer web design classes, but most focus on teaching you the basic of how to actually write the tags. They don't really explain what HTML, or CSS, or Javascript, are.
Are you familiar with schools outside of NY? I think you'll find it very different than your experience.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksaj said:
Yeah, hate to tell you this, but this is not in most primary or secondary school curriculum. Some, and only some, schools offer web design classes, but most focus on teaching you the basic of how to actually write the tags. They don't really explain what HTML, or CSS, or Javascript, are.
Are you familiar with schools outside of NY? I think you'll find it very different than your experience.
I can guarantee most of the schools south of the Mason-Dixon line don't. Those schools are worse off than NY schools.
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@thanksaj said:
I can guarantee most of the schools south of the Mason-Dixon line don't. Those schools are worse off than NY schools.
Actually, no. That's exactly where they are doing it. That's where the push to improve the schools has happened so much. NY has fallen and is now one of the worst education systems in the nation. By and large the south is blowing it away. Texas, traditionally a sink hole of education, is now so far outpacing NY it isn't funny. NY was great in education once, those days are past. They aren't even trying anymore.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksaj said:
I can guarantee most of the schools south of the Mason-Dixon line don't. Those schools are worse off than NY schools.
Actually, no. That's exactly where they are doing it. That's where the push to improve the schools has happened so much. NY has fallen and is now one of the worst education systems in the nation. By and large the south is blowing it away. Texas, traditionally a sink hole of education, is now so far outpacing NY it isn't funny. NY was great in education once, those days are past. They aren't even trying anymore.
The main place that the South still lacks in in things like special education. Even if they've gotten better overall, the South has never had good special education programs, which is why my family stayed in NY, among other reasons, after my brother was diagnosed as autistic.
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@thanksaj said:
The main place that the South still lacks in in things like special education. Even if they've gotten better overall, the South has never had good special education programs, which is why my family stayed in NY, among other reasons, after my brother was diagnosed as autistic.
That was a long time ago. I think you'll find that the south seriously outpaces NY in that area too, in the last six or seven years. The switch in education lead was dramatic and rapid. The south decided to fix its problems, Texas especially (not true south), and NY collapsed at the same time.
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Anytime you see anything about a profession you are in on TV or the movies, they generally get it all wrong.
In each profession there's generally one movie that everyone loves because it is the only one to get things right. Backdraft for firefighters, Scrubs for doctors, etc.
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@Nic said:
Anytime you see anything about a profession you are in on TV or the movies, they generally get it all wrong.
In each profession there's generally one movie that everyone loves because it is the only one to get things right. Backdraft for firefighters, Scrubs for doctors, etc.
None for IT, software or Physics
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@Nic said:
Anytime you see anything about a profession you are in on TV or the movies, they generally get it all wrong.
In each profession there's generally one movie that everyone loves because it is the only one to get things right. Backdraft for firefighters, Scrubs for doctors, etc.
Scrubs is actually accurate?? I find that hysterical!
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@scottalanmiller said:
None for IT, software or Physics
You mean Swordfish and Hackers didn't get it right?
almost LOL for real after typing that.
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@technobabble said:
@scottalanmiller said:
None for IT, software or Physics
You mean Swordfish and Hackers didn't get it right?
almost LOL for real after typing that.
Both great movies though...
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What good timing, in the same week that I mention how I've been disappointed with the bothering to fact check things for shows like Two and a Half Men and Big Bang Theory this shows up on 9Gag...
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Now to be fair, he only says that he is the scientific adviser and BBT doesn't do that so badly. It's the tech that they mess up so badly. I stopped watching after the first season, not sure I made it that far, but remember it being pretty poor.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Nic said:
Anytime you see anything about a profession you are in on TV or the movies, they generally get it all wrong.
In each profession there's generally one movie that everyone loves because it is the only one to get things right. Backdraft for firefighters, Scrubs for doctors, etc.
None for IT, software or Physics
Silicon Valley for software
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Well it's probably a good thing that I don't actually watch TV shows like this for their educational purposes.
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@NetworkNerdWifey said:
Well it's probably a good thing that I don't actually watch TV shows like this for their educational purposes.
I'd say most people don't care- they just want a good laugh and to be entertained.But it makes it not funny because they messed up the joke. How entertaining is any joke if you get the punch lines wrong? It's not just a technical failure, the writing itself failed.
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Part of this is that you Aspie's see things so differently than the rest of the world and have a hard time imagining anything outside of your world. I live with 2 of them I know believe me. I can ignore inaccuracies and just enjoy something for the pure fun of what it was intended to be not what was said.
