[sdiy] My Fancy Paperweight, the ESQ

[Antti Huovilainen]

On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, David G. Dixon wrote:

> Kyle, I was being just a touch sarcastic there.  That's the problem with
> programming: you must spend a lot of time and effort obtaining the know-how
> before you can do even relatively simplistic things with it.

I don't think it would be that hard provided you had the right mindset and 
were already familar with basic digital electronics (so things like 
registers and bitmasks weren't entirely foreign concepts).

I might be "a bit" biased, but given that many of my friends learned to 
program as preteens or teens before the age of internet and widely available tutorials / manuals, it shouldn't be That hard for a determined 
adult to pick up the basics in reasonable time. Just use an overpowered 
platform and you don't need to worry about the speed of your code that 
much either.

Antti

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