I strongly, strongly disagree. You can approach programming as a craft, and immerse yield in tools, techniques, concepts and so on. Or you can approach it as a

I strongly, strongly disagree. You can approach programming as a craft, and immerse yield in tools, techniques, concepts and so on. Or you can approach it as a means to an end, which is creating an app, website, service, etc, and just look for the shortest path to get results. You don't have any basis for saying one approach is more valid than the other.