A lot of these are really neat ideas, but as I read them, I thought: I'd never have bothered learning programming if all that was available to me was what he's

A lot of these are really neat ideas, but as I read them, I thought: I'd never have bothered learning programming if all that was available to me was what he's describing. I like the separation between the problem I'm working on and the background information I need so I can understand and solve it; having the problem and background information presented together neither appeals to nor aids me. That may be because I've grown accustomed to learning from documentation and applying it to my work, but I don't think so; I think there's something deeper going on that may have something to do with the way my mind organizes information. I wonder if Bret Victor, if he were being honest with himself, would prefer to learn his way, or the way he actually did.