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State of the Art - Call It ‘Creating Apps for Dummies’
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoSingle page: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/technology/personaltech/12pogue.html?8dpc=&_r=1&pagewanted=all http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/technology/personaltech/12... The link given in this submission is to the second page, and the link on that second page to the "single page" version is broken.
- kemiller 16y agoPeople seem to think the hard part of programming is the syntax. Remembering your semicolons and so forth. But logic is logic. If one of these is to succeed, it will be because it has made it easier for more people, or more kinds of people, to add the skill of programming to their toolbox. The essence of programming is describing a desired result in a precise and repeatable way. People have been doing this for centuries and it's always been difficult. Computers only seem special because for most of their history, you've had to employ a fair bit of arcana just to get to the central logic. But now matter how much of that you brush away, there remains a nut of irreducible difficulty that no tool, no matter how powerful, will ever get rid of. A WYSIWYG Word processor certainly makes writing easier, but it can never make you a writer. We teach children how to write. Why don't we teach them the rudiments of programming?