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I dont think we're disagreeing. I don't suggest speaking practice to the exclusion of literary practice. In this comment you acknowledge the importance of speak

by kough 11y ago

I dont think we're disagreeing. I don't suggest speaking practice to the exclusion of literary practice. In this comment you acknowledge the importance of speaking practice. That's what was missing from my reading of your first comment. I responded largely because I understood your comment to suggest (explicitly and through analogy) that new programmers study books before attempting to write code and interact with the community. Cheers, sorry for the confusion.

Mithaldu 11y ago
Actually, i do. Completely. I acknowledge practicing is important, but attempting to write code before having gone through a full book and having read some real world code is only going to be damaging for a new learner. Plus, newbies who refuse to actually read a book front-to-end annoy the ever-living shit out of help channel people, because they end up asking all the stuff that the book would explain fo them, and the chat people end up being nothing but an interactive and abusive book.
- ktRolster 11y ago
  "The only true way is with Dijkstra's programming textbook that starts with proofs." It will prevent you from becoming braindamaged from BASIC (or Python :) ) http://www.amazon.com/Method-Programming-Edsger-W-Dijkstra/dp/0201175363 http://www.amazon.com/Method-Programming-Edsger-W-Dijkstra/d...