Re:Please don’t learn to code
by Ma8ee on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @10:42AM
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It's like you can gain a lot from just the first basic knowledge how to do things outside your main profession. In the same way as everyone should know how to sew a button or replace a fuse or power plug and save themselves a lot of money, knowing how to script your excel might save you countless hours. That doesn't mean that everyone should be professional tailors or electrical engineers, or developers.
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"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
— Robert Heinlein on "The competent Man"
Very big difference between
>>Specialization is for insects
and
You can know the name of that bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird. You'll only know about humans in different places, and what they call the bird. … I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something. - Richard Feynman