CitC 08 Rely on Your Digital Natives
Why you should let your students figure it out for you.
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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…