ProdigalFrog ( ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net ) to Programming@programming.devEnglish · 2 years ago50 years after Basic, most users still can't or won't program anythingwww.zdnet.comexternal-linkmessage-square34linkfedilinkarrow-up1110
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minus-squareFizzyOrange ( FizzyOrange@programming.dev ) linkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 years agoRight but it isn’t “the basics of how a computer works” that drives people to learn programming is it? Nobody says “aha, now that I know what Giles and folders are I will become a programmer”. People become programmers for other reasons: They want to make something (e.g. a game). They are naturally interested in computers. Money.
minus-squareHobbitFoot ( HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoNo, but you need to know the basics of how a computer works to program. And if you are interested in computers, you are going to learn how they work.
Right but it isn’t “the basics of how a computer works” that drives people to learn programming is it?
Nobody says “aha, now that I know what Giles and folders are I will become a programmer”.
People become programmers for other reasons:
No, but you need to know the basics of how a computer works to program. And if you are interested in computers, you are going to learn how they work.