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    1. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 21 Apr 2017

      Technical debt is bad, but (more often than not) optimal.

      32 replies 275 retweets 636 likes
    2. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 21 Apr 2017
      Replying to @paulg

      Interestingly, incurring technical debt tends to be the optimal strategy for individuals as well as for startups.

      9 replies 48 retweets 155 likes
      Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 21 Apr 2017

      Young programmers are better off not starting with the theoretical foundations of CS, but by eagerly writing crappy programs.

      1:50 AM - 21 Apr 2017
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        2. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 21 Apr 2017
          Replying to @paulg

          That sounds obvious, doesn't it? And yet few if any schools and universities can bring themselves to teach programming this way.

          22 replies 31 retweets 112 likes
        3. Chris Barchak‏ @cbarchak 21 Apr 2017
          Replying to @paulg

          Are there really computer science majors who haven’t already been programmers for 10+ years?

          10 replies 1 retweet 18 likes
        4. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 21 Apr 2017
          Replying to @cbarchak

          Oh dude. You have no idea how many angry people there are on Twitter who are eager to answer that for you.

          3 replies 0 retweets 74 likes
        5. Chris Barchak‏ @cbarchak 21 Apr 2017
          Replying to @paulg

          I’m sure you’re right. But how many art majors made their first pencil sketch at 18?

          6 replies 1 retweet 26 likes
        6. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 21 Apr 2017
          Replying to @cbarchak

          I'm not disagreeing with you so much as explaining that this is a topic some people have very strong political beliefs about.

          4 replies 0 retweets 13 likes
        7. Yaron Minsky‏ @yminsky 21 Apr 2017
          Replying to @paulg @cbarchak

          The objection is factual, not political. Few CS undergrads have deep experience with programming before school.

          3 replies 0 retweets 22 likes
        8. Chris Barchak‏ @cbarchak 21 Apr 2017
          Replying to @yminsky @paulg

          That may well be true today. Didn’t feel like the case in early 90s. Did we stop teaching programming in schools? Why?

          3 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
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        2. Joel Louzado‏ @jlouzado 22 Apr 2017
          Replying to @paulg

          It's all fun and games until the crushing impostor's syndrome sets in. 🙈 Grueling arcane tech interviews don't particularly help either.

          4 replies 0 retweets 15 likes
        3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 22 Apr 2017
          Replying to @jlouzado

          Better to have impostor syndrome than nothing to feel it about.

          0 replies 0 retweets 11 likes
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        2. Jason Terhorst‏ @jterhorst 21 Apr 2017
          Replying to @paulg

          @RedQueenCoder That’s how I did it, and I’m teaching myself the fundamentals now. Lots of “aha” moments. Wouldn’t have stuck with it.

          1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
        3. Janie (Clayton) Larson‏ @RedQueenCoder 21 Apr 2017
          Replying to @jterhorst @paulg

          I still haven't learned a lot of the fundamentals because they're abstracted away and there's almost no point in doing them.

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        4. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 21 Apr 2017
          Replying to @RedQueenCoder @jterhorst

          Another way to understand this is that you do know the fundamentals, but they're different than they were in 1960.

          2 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
        5. Janie (Clayton) Larson‏ @RedQueenCoder 21 Apr 2017
          Replying to @paulg @jterhorst

          That too. 😀

          0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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        2. Aakash‏ @aakashhdesai 22 Apr 2017
          Replying to @paulg @davemcclure

          Does that work for other professions too? Marketing, Design, etc.?

          2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
        3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 22 Apr 2017
          Replying to @aakashhdesai @davemcclure

          It works for many. Definitely works for writing, for example. I would guess it works for design. Not sure about marketing.

          1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
        4. Aakash‏ @aakashhdesai 22 Apr 2017
          Replying to @paulg @davemcclure

          Thanks!

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        2. Patrick Nguyen‏ @hometuesday 22 Apr 2017
          Replying to @paulg

          Would you recommend your kids to start with business courses and save theoretical CS for PhD?

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        3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 22 Apr 2017
          Replying to @hometuesday

          I wouldn't recommend anyone take business courses. And college is plenty late to learn theory if you start programming at 12.

          2 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
        4. Patrick Nguyen‏ @hometuesday 23 Apr 2017
          Replying to @paulg

          I agree with you mostly, except would it be easier to teach a programmer to be a product manager than a product manager to program?

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