Re:The Two Cultures of Computing (2013)
by ontouchstart on Friday August 05, 2016 @10:17PM
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Playground is just another form of REPL. For example, here are two forms of of the same exercise, the firt one running on iPad, the second in Docker/Linux:
My point is that there is a difference between mastering the toolchains and understanding the deep concepts.
I totally agree that we have to start from somewhere concrete, quote Seymour Papart: "you cannot think about thinking without thinking about thinking about something". However, we should also "focus on the big picture and zero in on the powerful ideas ..."
1. https://github.com/ontouchstart/swift3-playground/blob/39331...
2. https://github.com/thinkswift/TS/blob/296775627b19c4d98eb7fd...
My point is that there is a difference between mastering the toolchains and understanding the deep concepts.
I totally agree that we have to start from somewhere concrete, quote Seymour Papart: "you cannot think about thinking without thinking about thinking about something". However, we should also "focus on the big picture and zero in on the powerful ideas ..."
- http://news.mit.edu/2016/seymour-papert-pioneer-of-construct...