Re: How to abate the Ubiquitous Fear of Programming

in reply to How to abate the Ubiquitous Fear of Programming

Two points spring to mind when reading your post.

The world already has far too many mediocre or incompetent programmers. Why would you want to encourage more?
Why do you want to persuade people that programming is less complex than they think? As long as they believe that it's some kind of black art, that keeps our salaries higher :)

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Re^2: How to abate the Ubiquitous Fear of Programming by Anonymous Monk on Aug 03, 2004 at 18:50 UTC
I'm going to start spreading non-sequiturs like "Can you learn Perl? 85% of the world's rocket scientists don't know how to program Perl!" Of course, the statement is totally disjointed, but probably close to true. I also like to refer to Flux Integratals through Hypersolids as I studied in Calculus. I don't know what they are, but people are afraid of them.	[reply]
Re^2: How to abate the Ubiquitous Fear of Programming by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Aug 03, 2004 at 23:30 UTC
The world already has far too many mediocre or incompetent programmers. Why would you want to encourage more? A possible answer: Initial aptitude isn't a guarantee of final skill level. If premature optimization of code is an evil, how much more undesirable is premature optimization of the coder. To me, this relates to the CPAN. There's cruft and crud but very few are in favor of a submission gauntlet to keep quality up and duplication down. A healthy ecosystem needs its nitrogen recyclers as much as its apex animals.	[reply]
Re^3: How to abate the Ubiquitous Fear of Programming by Velaki (Chaplain) on Aug 04, 2004 at 12:22 UTC
My original idea was to alleviate the fear of programming, not necessarily create more programmers. With fear comes much misunderstanding, assumptions, stereotyping. I even see it on the job, where non-programming managers will want to understand, but then say, "Oh, it's that kind of problem, and you're one of those people! programmer. Well, I guess we'll just have to find another geek/nerd to make sense of it." shock - such language!!! The best are those that make You entirely responsible for Their understanding of a particular topic. In the end, it's about trying to remove the fear, and show that we're all more alike than dissimilar. -v "Perl. There is no substitute."	[reply]

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