Technical debt is bad, but (more often than not) optimal.
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Young programmers are better off not starting with the theoretical foundations of CS, but by eagerly writing crappy programs.
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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Edsger Dijkstra used to call himself a "Programmer" and considered it the most honorable title.
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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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Upside down, so we end up with crappy programs. Not everybody has music ear.
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at least in my country, you don't learn programming studying CS in college, you learn it by yourself or don't learn at all.
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I asked a bunch of good coders when and why they started coding: http://webagility.com/posts/when-did-you-start-coding-and-why …
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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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The beauty with technical debt is that when an idea fails, you don't have to repay the debt.
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