> When teaching “programming”, a surprisingly small amount of time is spent actually helping students with logic – and a lot helping them learning & managing pr

> When teaching “programming”, a surprisingly small amount of time is spent actually helping students with logic – and a lot helping them learning & managing programming tools. This is true and fits my experience. > Programmers like to think that they spend all their time creating elaborate & complex abstractions but far more time is consumed dealing with the tools and idioms encrusted with historical baggage. I disagree. Junior developers spend a disproportionate amount of time learning how to use the tools but after about 3 years all the terminal and editor idiosyncrasies should be second nature. If a person is still struggling with tooling for any significant part of most weeks either something is very wrong or you’ve recently changed jobs (and will be up to speed soon). It’s clear that the author spends a huge amount of time with beginners, which probably colors his perception too much.