This article http://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2015/12/learn-to-code-its-harder-than-you-think.html … is like telling people not to take a first aid course because medicine is hard. 1/
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There's a wide gulf between "I can use programming to automate some repetitive tasks" and "I work on the Linux kernel" 3/
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And that's OK. As a person who struggled for a year in programming, I don't like seeding people with the idea that struggle = no aptitude 4/
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I've also helped a ton of people get enough programming skills to do their job better. You can never predict the point where they'll stop 5/
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Again, if someone knows enough excel to improve their productivity, there's a very good chance learning to code will help them. 6/
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Just because someone doesn't have a Ph.D in English doesn't mean we discourage them from learning writing skills. 7/
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TLDR scripting languages have a nice "onboarding to productivity" curve. We should encourage more people to take the journey. 8/8
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@wycats I think there's a trend saying we should teach everyone programming. IMO not gonna happen. You're right too tho, not all or nothing. -
@Mrberggg The fact that there's a giant cliff between Excel and my-script.rb or .js is the real problem. - 1 more reply
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