[anthk]

Without a working internet connection, you can simulate network setups, but not the real deal. A teen at SDF could learn much faster with people with wisdom than by themselves. They can be guided in a much easier way. Hint: I didn't got internet at home until very late. And, back in the daw I knew a lot in some areas, such as drivers under GNU/Linux, adapting basic BTTV drivers and so on, but severely lacking in others, because there was no proper information to start with.

[mixmastamyk]

I used LANs half a decade before connecting to the wider net. SBCs and VMs are much greater resources than I learned on. Routers are cheap, I just set up a dynalink with openwrt for $75.

No one is asking teens to set up a production kube cluster. There’s so much to learn—they’ll be fine.