I don’t think that growing up with a c64 made kids into great programmers, but it did ingrain the notion that a computer is a programmable machine at its core. That complex things are just collections of simpler things.
It’s very hard to have the same realization growing up with current technology. It just too easy to see computer(/phone/tablet) as a complete appliance, which operation you never really alter. The same way you don’t mess with your washing machine outside of its designed functions.
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I don’t think that growing up with a c64 made kids into great programmers, but it did ingrain the notion that a computer is a programmable machine at its core. That complex things are just collections of simpler things.
It’s very hard to have the same realization growing up with current technology. It just too easy to see computer(/phone/tablet) as a complete appliance, which operation you never really alter. The same way you don’t mess with your washing machine outside of its designed functions.