On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 12:20 AM, Neil Van Dyke <n...@neilvandyke.org> wrote: > You've read a lot already. I don't know how much practical programming > experience you have, but this reminds me to make a suggestion for anyone > reading this email who is learning programming and doing a lot of reading... > > If someone has access to a computer, then my suggestion at this point is > make sure that they are spending more time practicing programming than they > are spending on reading. > > By reading books and doing problem sets only, and reasoning about > programming in their head atop that, then someone might be able to > understand programming theory as a mathematician might. But if they want > intuition and insight into how to build and evolve sustainable systems in > the real world, then I'm not aware of any substitute for practical > experience in programming.
Big +1. I started to write a reply, but it drifted long and off-topic so I made it into a blog post instead: http://www.greghendershott.com/2013/07/skim-or-sink.html ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users