I noticed your comment at Gonzalez's substack and decided to see what you were writing. The second paragraph (doctrine is a replacement for experience) instantly triggered the monthly Subscribe button. The part about enjoyment triggered the annual Subscribe button.
Programming is a language skill, not a math skill. Real programmers know it. Tech influencers of all types start with math, which real programmers instantly recognize as a scam. Tech influencers also create the belief that computers can think like a human, which real programmers ALSO recognize as a scam.
I used to program on a TI-81 calculator when I was young (before there was even a port! Programs had to be copied by hand from ftp files on the web), I then moved to BASIC, then Visual Basic, then I took a class on it and it was taught to me in a way that suggested it was all math. This scared me off forever. To think if I had an instructor who just presented it as language, I could have a very different life right now.
I noticed your comment at Gonzalez's substack and decided to see what you were writing. The second paragraph (doctrine is a replacement for experience) instantly triggered the monthly Subscribe button. The part about enjoyment triggered the annual Subscribe button.
Programming is a language skill, not a math skill. Real programmers know it. Tech influencers of all types start with math, which real programmers instantly recognize as a scam. Tech influencers also create the belief that computers can think like a human, which real programmers ALSO recognize as a scam.
I used to program on a TI-81 calculator when I was young (before there was even a port! Programs had to be copied by hand from ftp files on the web), I then moved to BASIC, then Visual Basic, then I took a class on it and it was taught to me in a way that suggested it was all math. This scared me off forever. To think if I had an instructor who just presented it as language, I could have a very different life right now.