The Importance of Interest and Aptitude in Learning

In the late 70s and early 80s, I saw a group of kids playing with this BBC Acorn Computer in Bloomsbury. And I thought, as people did scared stiff, if I don't catch up now with this, oh, never, you know, you have to be computer literate with the phrase. So I just literally stopped being a student and bought one of these, and you plugged it into a television,. Had a cassette tape recorder to carry all the programs and taught myself basic that the language could do. It was only much later that I discovered about Claude Shannon and the nature of information science  and what it was about. Still marvel at its beauty