It would be easy to say I’m “teaching” him how to program, but that’s not at all how it feels. More like I’m just sitting next to him while he learns, occasionally teeing things up for him.
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I hope this is something he’ll come to understand differently as he gets older. What a compliment it is to be copied! But I also remember liking that feeling of ownership when I was younger. I wanted to slap a © on everything I made! I wonder where that came from.....
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Today I showed him the Chrome “inspect element”/dev tools console. It’s great to be able to tweak things and watch the page react instantly. But it’s also crazy just how complicated the modern web has become.
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I don’t know how to strike the right balance between the precision and intelligibility of low-level tooling (e.g. HTML) vs. the power of high-level tooling (e.g. a template language + CSS). How important is it these days to understand the web from the bottom up?
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(Also, I realize that one person’s “bottom layer” is another person’s towering abstraction. Even raw HTML is impossible far from the metal. But at least it’s a consistent/coherent/portable technology, unlike much of what gets written on top of it.)
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Anyway, that’s all for now. More later I hope. Thanks for letting me brain-dump!
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