Amazing essay about programming, and how our tools fail us

http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/

I love how he re-casts the problem of learning to program. Learning to think like a computer is a dead-end. I can remember just starting to learn this stuff, and how hard it was to keep all the plates spinning at once. I could really use the live self-documentation feature he sketches half-way through – I still have to look up most things unless I use them every day.

Walter


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I’ve relied on journals and mountains of sticky-notes to help. Nowadays,
index cards mostly, and hierarchical lists as outlines.


Ernie Simpson

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Walter Lee Davis email@hiddenwrote:

Learnable Programming

I love how he re-casts the problem of learning to program. Learning to
think like a computer is a dead-end. I can remember just starting to learn
this stuff, and how hard it was to keep all the plates spinning at once. I
could really use the live self-documentation feature he sketches half-way
through – I still have to look up most things unless I use them every day.

Walter


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Learnable Programming

As someone who is trying to learn Ruby this looks very interesting and useful.

Todd


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