Technical debt is bad, but (more often than not) optimal.
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That sounds obvious, doesn't it? And yet few if any schools and universities can bring themselves to teach programming this way.
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Are there really computer science majors who haven’t already been programmers for 10+ years?
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Oh dude. You have no idea how many angry people there are on Twitter who are eager to answer that for you.
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I’m sure you’re right. But how many art majors made their first pencil sketch at 18?
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I'm not disagreeing with you so much as explaining that this is a topic some people have very strong political beliefs about.
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The objection is factual, not political. Few CS undergrads have deep experience with programming before school.
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That may well be true today. Didn’t feel like the case in early 90s. Did we stop teaching programming in schools? Why?
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It's all fun and games until the crushing impostor's syndrome sets in.
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Better to have impostor syndrome than nothing to feel it about.
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@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. -
I still haven't learned a lot of the fundamentals because they're abstracted away and there's almost no point in doing them.
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Another way to understand this is that you do know the fundamentals, but they're different than they were in 1960.
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That too.
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Does that work for other professions too? Marketing, Design, etc.?
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It works for many. Definitely works for writing, for example. I would guess it works for design. Not sure about marketing.
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Thanks!
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Would you recommend your kids to start with business courses and save theoretical CS for PhD?
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I wouldn't recommend anyone take business courses. And college is plenty late to learn theory if you start programming at 12.
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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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