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Re:What I wish I knew before becoming a code-free programmer by leeale10 on Monday April 23, 2018 @03:43PM (#16906724)
That's a good point. I don't have much traditional programming experience myself, but have found that Bubble has help me "speak the same language" as those who program with code. Perhaps there is an interesting place for tools like Bubble to be a middle-ground for those learning the principles behind coding.

Why is it you think that someone like the author would be able to code many times faster than they could develop software visually through Bubble?

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Re:What I wish I knew before becoming a code-free programmer by LyndsySimon on Monday April 23, 2018 @05:15PM (#16907480)
> Why is it you think that someone like the author would be able to code many times faster than they could develop software visually through Bubble?

Thinking about how things go together is the hard part of writing software. Every time I've ever used a visual interface to show that, I've had to spend additional time to "translate" what I'm building into what's actually happening on the layer underneath. The abstraction is too leaky to be of use to me.

It's possible that there is a visual language out there that's not so leaky, but I've not seen it. Granted I've not used Bubble.

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