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Jeff Atwood write extraordinary posts, the extraordinary is that after all the verbose he don't get it.
"So, no, I don't advocate learning to code for the sake of learning to code. What I advocate is shamelessly following your joy."
That's not new, I would say "do what you love", and that doesn't mean that "not everyone should not learn to code".
There are always things that you should learn and you do not love, and things that you shouldn't but you do love.
When you learn to code, you do not learn how to write commands in a certain order, you learn how to think and solve problems.
Commented May 28, 2012 on So You Want to be a Programmer at Coding Horror
So You Want to be a Programmer
I didn't intend for Please Don't Learn to Code to be so controversial, but it seemed to strike a nerve. Apparently a significant percentage of readers stopped reading at the title. So I will open with my own story. I think you'll find it instructive. My mom once told me that the only reaso...
Actually, not all things should evolve at the same rate.
Also a good developer not always have to see invisible things to control them, when coding or typing, he knows what will be the output.
And there is fourth interface or option, but it is used commonly in drawing/CAD/painting applications.
Commented Mar 25, 2012 on What You Can't See You Can't Get at Coding Horror
What You Can't See You Can't Get
I suppose What You See Is What You Get has its place, but as an OCD addled programmer, I have a problem with WYSIWYG as a one size fits all solution. Whether it's invisible white space, or invisible formatting tags, it's been my experience that forcing people to work with invisible things they ...
so, I assume you wrote this post on your new iPads, right?
Commented Mar 21, 2012 on Welcome to the Post PC Era at Coding Horror
Welcome to the Post PC Era
What was Microsoft's original mission? In 1975, Gates and Allen form a partnership called Microsoft. Like most startups, Microsoft begins small, but has a huge vision – a computer on every desktop and in every home. The existential crisis facing Microsoft is that they achieved their missi...
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