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Learning to program? Be curious and unafraid. • michael schade

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I’ve been asked a few times now how to learn to program. My advice has varied as I’ve continued thinking about this, but I’ve recently realized the answer has very little to do with programming itself: There’s something you need beyond just knowing a particular language. It doesn’t matter if you stay pure with Haskell or find your one true way with Python; it’s irrelevant whether you focus on embedded systems or concentrate on infrastructure at scale; and it certainly doesn’t matter whether you end your day with :wq or C-x C-c. If you want to learn to program (or get better at just about anything), you need to be curious and unafraid. You should frequently arrive at the brink of your knowledge and constantly immerse yourself in the depths of each cliff. – I was fortunate while growing up that my parents ran a computer-based business out of our house. The Macintosh was new enough (at least for St. Louis businesses) that there was no computer store to call. For a business, this is no exc

Learning to program? Be curious and unafraid. • michael schade Learning to program? Be curious and unafraid. 2012-12-11 I’ve been asked a few times now how to learn to program. My advice has varied as I’ve continued thinking about this, but I’ve recently realized the answer has very little to do with programming itself: There’s something you need beyond just knowing a particular language. It doesn’t matter if you stay pure with Haskell or find your one true way with Python; it’s irrelevant whether you focus on embedded systems or concentrate on infrastructure at scale; and it certainly doesn’t

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