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Re:Non-Tech Founder of YCW12 Daily Muse Learns Code & Builds... by gklitt on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @10:47AM (#4285885)
Congratulations to her for learning the basics, but I find it annoying that this article seems to consider "knowing how to code" as a binary variable, either you know it or you don't. What she really did is learn to add a basic website feature in Python, which is cool but not comparable to a lot of other real "coding" going on out there.
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Re:Non-Tech Founder of YCW12 Daily Muse Learns Code & Builds... by zedshaw on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @12:51PM (#4286510)
Actually, either you do know how to do it or you don't. After that there's degrees of capability, but before learning to write software in any language there's a period of "duhhhh i don't get it" and at a certain point people get a "oh! i get it". For some that's very quick, for others it takes forever.

Once they're past that stage then it's a matter of improving skill and building a style and repertoire of techniques.

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