Games and leisure activities are a great way to build proficiency with a new technology. Then, when a need arises, that mastery can be put to good use... But that would not have been possible without having fooled around with the technology beforehand.
I learned a good bit about data processing while reformatting 78-column BBS text files and manuals for printing in full-page-width proportional font (so as to save my father's printer paper).
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Games and leisure activities are a great way to build proficiency with a new technology. Then, when a need arises, that mastery can be put to good use... But that would not have been possible without having fooled around with the technology beforehand.
I learned a good bit about data processing while reformatting 78-column BBS text files and manuals for printing in full-page-width proportional font (so as to save my father's printer paper).