I pretty much totally agree - let’s put me at around 95% - but what if we build a system where people could collaborate with those who can code? What if great writers, designers, knowers of the literature could get equal credit with the folks who write the code?
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Would you still advocate everyone learn to code? (Serious Q - not sarcastic!)
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So much going on in your question but just to touch on some tips of some of the icebergs: a. being a coder isn't mutually exclusive to being a designer or a writer. I do all.
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b. those who code in science e.g.
@ResearchSoftEng are less credited than those who make figures or write papers (esp latter). I don't think the issue is that coding is always privileged, in fact it's not except in very special cases — cases that intersect heavily w privilege. -
For example, I'm often praised for how http://oliviaguest.com/neuroplausible.com/bradlove.org … LOOKS and almost never (maybe once?) praised about the code I wrote. So I am praised for the design over the code pretty much always.
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Ha! I sillily broke those links — sorry! Here: http://oliviaguest.com / http://neuroplausible.com / http://bradlove.org / http://redistrict.science — I've coded all of these in HTML, CSS, JS but I get praise almost always without fail along the lines of "so pretty".
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And of course they don't mean the source code is pretty [it isn't in many cases HAHA] they mean the design. And that's actually part of the problem. Only certain classes of people are typically praised for certain things.
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And back to point a above, coding make my design and writing skills sharper. None of these skills IMHO are mutually exclusive.
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Agree so much. I think knowing how to definitely was one of the major reasons why I got into a very good grad program. If there is no one to teach you, teach yourself!
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That's actually true for all programming. Pretty much all coders are to certain extents self-taught. Just like reading is not really something you are taught once in a classroom; coding also is not something you just learn by listening once for an hour or whatever.
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