People think other people need GUIs. But I don't believe them. The only reason people think a GUI or IDE is intuitive is because those arguing for it already know how to use it.
There's a lot of concepts getting mixed up here. As I said somewhere above. Rote learning is not all bad because some rote learning generalises. Multiplication tables for example are rote and generalise. Menus for stats or coding? Not as much.
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This is all in my blog post so I'll stop and focus on finishing it.
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Probably OT for your upcoming post, but the present discussion did remind me of a favourite trope: https://blog.codinghorror.com/this-is-what-happens-when-you-let-developers-create-ui/ … or https://jcooney.net/archive/2006/10/30/36235.html … via/by
@codinghorror &@josephcooney As a full-stack dev, I have to constantly prevent myself from recreating "the Dialog", ugh. -
Luckily for me, my day job requires zero GUI programming so I'm at no risk of "the dialog" but I am often, however, guilty of its command-line cousin which is 39 conflicting "friendly" undocumented command line arguments on a single tool.
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Full disclosure: I have made GUIs that are pretty bad. Many sins in GTK++ in C during my PhD.

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BTW I posted the blog post. Had to ignore Twitter to get it done.https://twitter.com/o_guest/status/1067079340507217920 …
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