Re: Computing Editorial (please read)

[Lee Hart <leeahart@earthlink.net>]

Lee Hart <leeahart@earthlink.net> writes:
>> My first concern is that there aren't any MCUs designed for
>> beginning hobbyists.

Eric Smith wrote:
> Yeah, and I went down to the local hardware store and tried to buy a
> router designed for beginning hobbyists, but they didn't have any of
> those either.

A router isn't a tool for beginners. There are lots of other, more basic
tools that one would master first.

> Maybe hobbyists should learn to use MCUs that are designed for use by
> experts, instead of expecting someone to make a dumbed down MCU that
> no one in their right mind would use in an actual product?

The problem with this approach becomes obvious the moment you try to
teach a beginner how to use an MCU designed by and for experts. The
knowledge gulf is simply too large.

It wasn't that long ago that there *were* MCUs designed for beginners.
Thousands of beginners bought them, and used them, and mastered them.
They became today's computer experts.
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