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I think this could also be called 'can your brain think like this?'... Many programmers stray from thinking in a massive way and tend to problems with similar,
by becomevocal 15y ago
I think this could also be called 'can your brain think like this?'... Many programmers stray from thinking in a massive way and tend to problems with similar, familiar codebases.
- sthatipamala 15y agoProgrammers are perfectly willing to think this way if you disguise it like this: http://api.jquery.com/each/ http://api.jquery.com/each/ People are put off by esoteric and academic-sounding names like "first-class functions". But people will adopt it if you put it in a practical context.
- becomevocal 15y agoOf course. But I'm thinking about it in terms of big data. A lot of us are and will be increasingly dealing with sets of data that should be thought of in parallel solutions. Not just a single process.
- pietro 15y agoIt might even be the other way round. I have a (slightly) harder time teaching first-year students how to use the for loop in JavaScript than how to use anonymous functions in jQuery. I think it's a better match for how the brain works.