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While he might make a few usable points, this article is drenched in non-recognized bias. He takes his (as I see it, heavily bottom-up leaning -> 'in order to
by dahauns 10y ago
While he might make a few usable points, this article is drenched in non-recognized bias.
He takes his (as I see it, heavily bottom-up leaning -> 'in order to grok it I have to essentially rewrite it.') cognitive style and applies it as universal.
- emodendroket 10y agoExcept that what led him to this point was interviewing multiple world-renowned programmers for his book "Coders at Work" and finding essentially none of them read code regularly either.
- dahauns 10y agoStill making it only anecdotal - and even more obviously biased (I'd hazard a guess that the interviewees are quite far from the norm in how they learn...)
- emodendroket 10y agoOK, sure, the data set is small. Do you know anybody who actually does it? Have you seen them doing it?
- dahauns 10y agoYep. I do it, for example. A few of my colleagues do it. Others work more like described in the article. (But I know that I myself are somewhat of an outlier, since I'm a rather extreme top-down learner.)