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Good headline. The article would have been more interesting if it had played up the contrast between two perspectives, the way you framed it, instead of spendin
by Noumenon72 8y ago
Good headline. The article would have been more interesting if it had played up the contrast between two perspectives, the way you framed it, instead of spending all its time on the programmer's perspective.
- suyash 8y agoAgree, the article failed to prove the point. The distinction is still unclear to me.
- pandler 8y agoThe distinction is that teaching how to build a car from scratch (builder) doesn’t teach you how to drive it any better (programmer). The proposal is to teach programming with “assume you have a car/compiler/filesystem” instead of always starting from first principles.
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