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Do you paint with crayons? You need a better metaphor. I cannot imagine a painter who, when handed a crayon and told to draw something, couldn't at least produ
by mechanical_fish 18y ago
Do you paint with crayons?
You need a better metaphor. I cannot imagine a painter who, when handed a crayon and told to draw something, couldn't at least produce a simple sketch. I just can't think of a single example.
- thorax 18y agoMaybe it's a bit like asking a cook to write down step-by-step, the recipe and directions for a meal they've never cooked before. Without access to their learned abilities to improvise with given ingredients, smelling/tasting the mixture, comparing notes with similar recipes they have, etc.
- rcoder 18y agoNope. Another miss. Good cooks can imagine flavors and guess at timing and ingredients for food they've never tasted (much less prepared) just as good painters can visualize a work in their head before ever putting brush to paper. Programmers should be able to work the same way.
- DougBTX 18y agoPerhaps asking them to create with crayons a picture that looks like it was painted. Asking someone to, say, draw out a quick flow chart on paper would be fine, but to get running code I'd want to be able to run it as I go.