1/ I think this is an underutilized pedagogical device. You can find scattered tutorials like "Z for Y programmers," but it's not the default. That's weird. Unless way more people try-and-quit programming than I realize, most people come to a new language with prior experience.https://twitter.com/b0rk/status/989253605524942849 …
2/ I get that publishers can't produce "Z for [A-Y] programmers" for each pairing. But, how much quicker could you introduce people if you met them at the intersection of their (really common) experience and needs, rather than pretending it's all new terrain?
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3/ "But you shouldn't program Z as if it were Y." (Concrete example: Don't program an in an OO language like you would a functional one.) Okay, that's true. But, ignoring the users habits doesn't make them less accessible. Contrast them, explicitly. Make them obviously different.
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