Re:A New Codecademy
by WoodenChair on Thursday April 24, 2014 @01:01AM
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Provisioning a Unix server is not programming. Programming, according to the dictionary is "The action or process of writing computer programs."
Deploying computer programs is, strictly speaking, separate from writing computer programs. With that said, it's certainly a skill that could be better covered by introductory texts.
Re:A New Codecademy
by jarrett on Thursday April 24, 2014 @11:21AM
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A fair point. I guess I should have said: "it's all stuff a programmer has to do." It might not be programming proper, but it's part of the job, at least for many (most?) programmers.
Deploying computer programs is, strictly speaking, separate from writing computer programs. With that said, it's certainly a skill that could be better covered by introductory texts.
Let's not get loose with our terminology though.