Nice example of how learning the language has some intrinsic advantages that quickly outweigh the inconvenience of having to learn the la...
Nice example of how learning the language has some intrinsic advantages that quickly outweigh the inconvenience of having to learn the language. It took me awhile to learn SQL myself and so I dread a bit having to teach it...but while I love spreadsheets...it is incredibly tiring having to create tutorials in which you explain which button to click and where and in what specific sequence and to make sure you've dragged the mouse so far and held Ctrl (or Cmd depending on what OS you are)...nevermind the problem of troubleshooting (what did you click before you clicked that button and did you left-click or right-click it and, btw, what version of Windows are you on?). SQL is difficult to learn for new programmers...but I find that that hurdle quickly pays off...no one ever keeps track of how much time they lose to struggling with the GUI because, well, doing things with the GUI are generally very hard to track. And it's a useful revelation, that being explicit, that having the ability to express exactly what you want, has a certain power to it. It's like teaching how to read and write to people who've so far learned only how to communicate in emoji
Posted by danso on May 21, 2015, 4:35 PM
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C++ is the "just here to deliver" language.
He is not weirdly political, he has just more normal views, I know that is something hard to grasp for some tech bro.
Of course you don't have a right to murder anyone.
Unify Control and Container nodes, allow children to pick the behavior
I was talking about this the other day with someone - broadly I agree with this, they're absolutely fantastic for getting a prototype so ...
In theory you could express most things as a flowchart but the complexity of doing that quickly escalates.
It's not really hard to onboard new engineers with Scala, Clojure or even Ruby backgrounds.
Very understanding (or even no) partners is probably a large percentage of it!
Nice example of how learning the language has some intrinsic advantages that quickly outweigh the inconvenience of having to learn the la...
Nice example of how learning the language has some intrinsic advantages that quickly outweigh the inconvenience of having to learn the language. It took me awhile to learn SQL myself and so I dread a bit having to teach it...but while I love spreadsheets...it is incredibly tiring having to create tutorials in which you explain which button to click and where and in what specific sequence and to make sure you've dragged the mouse so far and held Ctrl (or Cmd depending on what OS you are)...nevermind the problem of troubleshooting (what did you click before you clicked that button and did you left-click or right-click it and, btw, what version of Windows are you on?). SQL is difficult to learn for new programmers...but I find that that hurdle quickly pays off...no one ever keeps track of how much time they lose to struggling with the GUI because, well, doing things with the GUI are generally very hard to track. And it's a useful revelation, that being explicit, that having the ability to express exactly what you want, has a certain power to it. It's like teaching how to read and write to people who've so far learned only how to communicate in emoji
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