In a formal sense, mathematicians were the original programmers -- long before code and computers. But using a broader definition, programming may be as old as thought, or at least as old as symbolic language.
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I believe programming isn't a specialized skillset (unlike coding & software engineering). It's a fundamental part of how we think. People with no technical background at all create (and intuitively understand) very complex programs expressed in the mediums they're familiar with
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Coding is a particular form of programming, how can you not say the same for coding??
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Specifically because of how that particular form shapes the language used to express programs
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Programming is easy to learn - a child can do it. I learned programming by copying BASIC programs from magazines and toying around on a Sinclair Spectrum ZX80 since I was 6-7 years old, but I only got the higher level concepts a lot later. Programming is speech, essentially.
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Agreed! here's my superrrrr old post on thishttp://katsenblog.tumblr.com/post/119256226994/programming-writing-code …
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I think of it as the ability to design and express the steps required to perform a process, in unambiguous terms for others to be able to execute them. Computer executed steps are just a specific case.
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I've had this thought too. Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct inspired that line of thought; the required thinking tools are innate. Meta-information processing - including any use language and replicatable thought patterns - could be considered programming of a kind.
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As an artist yourself (I also have some background in the visual arts), do you think that there's a difference (either innate or learned) in working linearly/procedurally (sort of programming), vs a more intentional gestalt method?
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There's an exercise, drawing a figure by completing the head 1st, then torso, legs...you run out of room for feet! But if sketch the whole figure first, then do details (not intuitive, & requires training, or exceptional foresight), the proportions are better.
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