Technical debt is bad, but (more often than not) optimal.
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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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No. In the 80's and 90's home computers were marketed to boys. And we're still living with the impact of that in terms of gender gap.
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Microcomputers weren't marketed to boys when they first appeared, but only boys were interested in them.
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The point of tech debt (as with cash debt) is you leverage your future to gain an advantage in the present. Debt isn't bad by itself
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Schools and universities generally teach computer science, not programming.
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Edsger Dijkstra used to call himself a "Programmer" and considered it the most honorable title.
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I'm a fledgling programmer "eagerly writing crappy programs" at a university alternative
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The beauty with technical debt is that when an idea fails, you don't have to repay the debt.
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A naturally smart coder can write a successful indebted code (circa 2004 FB in php) but an average coder might need fundamentals.
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probably because computer programming was initially driven by military and space concerns? where crap doesn't fly, literally.
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Interesting theory. Alternative theory: the cost of bugs was initially very high because programmers had to wait hours ...
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Not a theory. History. Bletchley Park. Los Alamos. JPL.
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yes. I wasn't challenging that. I was questioning the causal relationship between military origins and avoidance of Ted debt
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they are both the same point. If things will blow up you can't allow errors to accumulate.
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