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Have you never worked with someone and had the thought go through your head, "Sure, this person's intelligent... but can they write code?" I'm not sure this bo
by billjings 17y ago
Have you never worked with someone and had the thought go through your head, "Sure, this person's intelligent... but can they write code?"
I'm not sure this book is a solution to that problem, but it certainly has a strong opinion.
- rbanffy 17y agoA programming book has as much of a chance of turning you into a programmer than swimming classes of turning you into a fish.
- hockeybias 17y agoI fail to concur.
- harpastum 17y agoI disagree with that analogy. It's true that some people just aren't ever going to be programmers, and no number of books will help that. On the other hand, some people have all of the correct mental attitudes, they just haven't been introduced to programming before. I think a much more reasonable analogy is something like playing the harp. Most people see little point in learning, and many of those that try it won't have the aptitude/interest to actually become adept, but there are a few that will become masters.
- rbanffy 17y ago> some people have all of the correct mental attitudes, they just haven't been introduced to programming before. They already are programmers. They just don't know it yet
- pyre 17y agoIt may be semantics at this point, but 'being a programmer' isn't a certain mental attitude/aptitude such much as it requires a certain mental attitude/aptitude. Just having that attitude/aptitude doesn't 'make your a programmer.'