Learning to program is getting harder

Re:Learning to program is getting harder by 8note on Saturday February 17, 2018 @03:26AM (#16399711)

have you breadboarded it out with transistors though? when was the last time you designed a board? when was the last time you laid telephone poles or dug tunnels for wires? designed fiber optics for cross ocean communications? launched a satellite for your GPS?

at some level, you're always going to be assuming the layer before reasonably works the way somebody gave it to you.

Its not cargo culting if you know where the actual dependence is, and both rails and heroku make it fairly clear what kinds of things they are doing. Even if you don't know how they're doing it, you know that without running the heroku part, you cant load the page in the browser, and without the rails part, you don't get any files you can change.

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Re:Learning to program is getting harder by tluyben2 on Saturday February 17, 2018 @04:25AM (#16399868)

Not really the point; if you know the dependencies but do not know the fundamentals, you can build stuff but when things go wrong and the fix is not the first SO hit, you are going to waste a lot of time on something you have no clue how to even start diagnosing.

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