CitC 08 Rely on Your Digital Natives

Why you should let your students figure it out for you.


Folksonomies: education coding

Memes

21 APR 2011

 Guy Steele on Programming as Magic

I think it's not an accident that we often use the imagery of magic to describe programming. We speak of computing Wizards and we think of things happening by magic or automagically. And I think that's because being able to get a machine to do what you want is the closest thing we've got in technology to adolescent wish-fulfillment. And if you look at the fairy tales, people want to be able to just think in their minds what they want, wave their hands, and it happens. And of course the fair...
Folksonomies: computer science magic
Folksonomies: computer science magic
  1  notes

Programming computers provides the individual total control over a system, a kind of magic that appeals to young minds.



References

21 APR 2011

 Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming

Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Seibel , Peter (2009-09-16), Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming, Apress, Retrieved on 2011-04-21
  • Source Material [codersatwork.com]
  •  24