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Sure, most people can 'learn' most things - but how well can they apply them? How good a developer / musician / etc will they be? I feel that this 'anyone can
by mb_72 12y ago
Sure, most people can 'learn' most things - but how well can they apply them? How good a developer / musician / etc will they be?
I feel that this 'anyone can code' movement is good up to a point, and dangerous beyond that. In the same way that we don't need more half-arse and incompetent engineers, lawyers, doctors, pilots, we don't need similarly incapable developers. The field of software engineering is still in it's infancy, and the last thing that is needed are barely-capable developers who needed hand-holding every step of the way to be lowering the bar.
- vehementi 12y agoI'd wager that the incapable developers aren't the ones that "just learned too late, welp", but rather lazy ones or ones without discipline, etc.
- pm90 12y agoYep. Discipline is the principle at work in making any craftsman better...whether it be a carpenter or a programmer. The nice thing about programming though is that there is so much technology and knowledge easily accessible for programmers to become better at their profession; I'm not so sure about other professions.