My kids are always coming up with startup ideas. I decided the 10 yo is now old enough to hear the truth: if you want to start a startup, the thing to be doing at 10 is learning the things that will enable you to have good startup ideas at 20. How to program especially.
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Were my *code* contributions to Stack Overflow significant in its success? Not really. Not at all, in fact.
Interestingly enough, I would not say that about Y Combinator. YC has a lot of code, which I wrote all of (though much has since been rewritten), and that code made YC work.
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Code is only useful in expressing an intent. The intent is far more important than the code, and can be captured more succinctly and accurately *outside* of the constraints of code. It's "I have a dream" versus DONKEY.BAS and it's no contest
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Agree with that, but it doesn't capture the entirety of the situation. People who can't code aren't often *capable* of completely expressing intent. The purpose of learning code isn't to produce code, it's to learn the method of thinking that allows unambiguous description.
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It’s not about writing code. After learning programming it gives you mental model for solving problems. If you describe programmer as a person just writing code then I would also not allow my kid to go for it but they are more than that.
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Thought experiment : Would you have learned more or been more effective @ declaring intent if: You wrote that in a lower level language (c vs lisp) Would u have learned less if using a higher lev language? (maybe a lisp framework)
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Is writing code still the best way for YOU to express intent?
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