Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Feb 4, 2015Why learning to code is hard ht @akkartik http://vikingcodeschool.com/posts/why-learning-to-code-is-so-damn-hard…132
Kartik Agaram@akkartik·Feb 4, 2015Replying to @vgr.@vgr I've been trying to figure out how I'd reorder the key topics in http://s3.amazonaws.com/viking_education/web_development/blog/coding_is_hard_scope_of_knowledge.png…. Idea #1: swap syntax and testing.211
Venkatesh Rao@vgrReplying to @akkartik@akkartik testing does not give same sense of accomplishment though...creating from scratch big beginner morale boost.7:01 PM · Feb 4, 20151 Retweet
Kyle Mathews@kylemathews·Feb 4, 2015Replying to @vgr@vgr @akkartik yup. I only started caring about testing once I was running production systems that kept failing in mysterious ways.21