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I've been involved in farming for most of my life and now, as an adult, have my own operation. I also program professionally. With considerable experience in bo
by randomdata 14y ago
I've been involved in farming for most of my life and now, as an adult, have my own operation. I also program professionally. With considerable experience in both, I still think farming is the more challenging of the two and believe that farming does require more problem solving over a wide range of disciplines.
When the whole learn to code push came to my attention, I also wondered if farming would be a better option for achieving the claimed goals.
- icebraining 14y agofarming does require more problem solving over a wide range of disciplines Does it make sense to compare the two that way? Farming is a an activity that has problems to be solved, programming is a method of solving problems - including farming related ones. Sure, farming has more and more diverse problems to be solved compared to pure programming problems (i.e., CS), but almost every programmer solves problems in other domains, and those are almost infinite.
- randomdata 14y agoThat is a great question. I guess it depends if the purpose is to learn how to solve problems, or how to use a tool that can solve a certain class of problems. If it is the latter, I do wonder why single out coding? Coming with a programmer bias, I often feel like I could do a lot more useful automations in my life if I had more electronic and mechanical skills. There are many disciplines that seem just as useful that students would gain a lot from being exposed to, not just coding.
- icebraining 14y agoSure, but we're programmers, so we advocate coding! That doesn't detract from EEs advocating for electronic skills or farmers advocating for agriculture skills. We don't all need to push everything.