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A comment on On Atwood's Please Don't Learn to Code. Parent comment
No one is seriously saying that learning, say, an obscure type of lace-making will improve your life in any way.
Learning to program is akin to learning to read; in a sense learning to program is really about learning to think clearly about a problem.
And that can be clearly applied to most aspects of life.
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No one is seriously saying that learning, say, an obscure type of lace-making will improve your life in any way.
Learning to program is akin to learning to read; in a sense learning to program is really about learning to think clearly about a problem.
And that can be clearly applied to most aspects of life.