Re:Principles for Programming Languages for Learners
by pessimizer on Monday August 29, 2016 @08:21AM
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1. These are high school students.
2. My mother, with an English degree, went into programming in her early 20s through a training program at her job. That was nearly 40 years ago, and she's still going.
Programming is largely a monoculture that looks down on people who are dissimilar (for example: who didn't program as a child, or decided to enter the field in college), and actively discourages them from continuing by assuming the worst about their capabilities.
Re:Principles for Programming Languages for Learners
by shoover on Monday August 29, 2016 @11:37AM
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Cool story about your mother. I'm interested to hear more about the kind of company that supported that transition, how long it took, and what it was like for her.
2. My mother, with an English degree, went into programming in her early 20s through a training program at her job. That was nearly 40 years ago, and she's still going.
Programming is largely a monoculture that looks down on people who are dissimilar (for example: who didn't program as a child, or decided to enter the field in college), and actively discourages them from continuing by assuming the worst about their capabilities.