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A comment on On Atwood's Please Don't Learn to Code. Parent comment

Re:On Atwood's Please Don't Learn to Code by tomcorrigan on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @01:31PM (#3977644)
You have missed the point. Your girlfriend did not need to learn to program in order to discover what can be achieved with a basic program.

For the common woman or man the revelation of computing comes from seeing what can be achieved, not how it is achieved.

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Re:On Atwood's Please Don't Learn to Code by angersock on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @03:07PM (#3978224)
You cannot in good faith separate the what from the how when passing on the "revelation of computing". To do so promotes ignorance among the populace.
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