Given a few hours & Google access, some people who've never written a line of code in their lives will be able to figure out how to solve FizzBuzz, and some will not. If you just *tell* them how to do it & they write the code, they've become a syntax-translator, not a programmer.
-
This Tweet is unavailable.
-
This Tweet is unavailable.
-
This Tweet is unavailable.
-
This Tweet is unavailable.
-
This Tweet is unavailable.
-
I got a D in high school AP C++. I was a landscaper with illegals shortly after that. My daughter was in poverty and the dot com bubble popped. I still learned to code. Self-appointed "journalists" are not the hill to die on.
Nothing about getting a poor grade in a high school class would imply to me that someone couldn't learn any particular thing or excel in some field. That's perhaps the worst proxy ever, akin to using your performance on a game show occurring in your own dreams to gauge aptitude
-
-
Just so we are clear... Your friend spent months in a class as was psychologically tortured because he didn't get it... And I got a D in the only AP class I've ever taken and I was... stoic and unmoved by this personal failure?
-
Yep. This wasn't a high school class. I'm talking about a full-time project-based bootcamp, taught by people who actually knew how to code, with lots of one-on-one coaching. Students weren't literally required by the state to be in the building, to start.
- 16 more replies
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.