SICP: the end of an era (2021) [video]
This change is necessary because young people aren&#x27;t interested in the fundamental abilities of computers, instead they&#x27;re only interested in the applications. If you grow up playing video games and using social media then you won&#x27;t appreciate programming if you&#x27;re made to start from the bare metal. There is a certain kind of person who&#x27;s interested in this, but most people instead are better motivated by demonstrations that relate to them. Robotics is cool regardless and allows the kids to &quot;smell blood&quot; early on, it lets them be dangerous, and then maybe one day some of them will be motivated enough to slow down and understand the old principles that underlie all of this.