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This is a great reply - thanks. I think this bolsters my sense that we should not be calling this activity ‘reading’ but rather ‘investigating’ or ‘researching
by jrmg 3y ago
This is a great reply - thanks.
I think this bolsters my sense that we should not be calling this activity ‘reading’ but rather ‘investigating’ or ‘researching’ or ‘understanding’ or something (none of these are perfect - there must be a better word…)
Calling it ‘reading’ - especially if encouraging newcomers to programming to do it - is, I think, likely to discourage more than help.
- parms 3y ago"grokking"
- svat 3y agoI guess “studying” would be a good word: it's close enough to “reading”, while also having an educational connotation and no expectation of being a linear process. Although I'd encourage everyone to consider “reading” already as non-linear: see e.g. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mblum/research/pdf/grad.html https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mblum/research/pdf/grad.html : > READING: Books are not scrolls. Scrolls must be read like the Torah from one end to the other. Books are random access -- a great innovation over scrolls. Make use of this innovation! Do NOT feel obliged to read a book from beginning to end.
- europeanNyan 3y agoI tried that once and was really perplexed as how Gandalf found the time to wash his robe in the middle of such an important quest.