Technical debt is bad, but (more often than not) optimal.
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Interestingly, incurring technical debt tends to be the optimal strategy for individuals as well as for startups.
Young programmers are better off not starting with the theoretical foundations of CS, but by eagerly writing crappy programs.
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Young devs need to see the results of their work asap. Getting stuck in code is not a great motivator. W/ experience comes knowledge
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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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nobody starts talking by learning grammar first, practice is fundamental to learning
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I don't think CS education as it is today equips the students to avoid tech debt.
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There's definitely a balance to be found, as there is with most things
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Nothing better than actually *feeling* the pain of O(n^2) and looking for a better way!
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Paul, please, I beg of you, how can we get people to understand this fact? It is hurting us everywhere. CS is important but start coding now
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Yes, because code (like life itself) is never designed but evolved out from already-working versions.
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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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