BGB <[email protected]> writes: > likewise, many people who aren't really programmers, but are just > trying to get something done, probably aren't really going to take a > formal approach to learning programming, but are more likely going to > try to find code fragments off the internet they can cobble together > to make something that basically works.
There's a lot of literature explaining that human are naturally programmers: we're all able to planify a process. What we're not all capable of, is to give an obsessive attention to all the details needed to planify a unforgiving computer process. What we programmers can try to provide, is a forgiving computer system, that people can program, but which is safe and smart enough to do it right without the need of ultra-precise input. There are already things like "programming" a robot by example, or creating programs by giving to the system a natural language story. > sometimes, it takes a while to really make the transition, from being > someone who wrote a lot of what they had by cobbling and imitation, to > being someone who really understands how it all actually works. Right. Just like the general public wouldn't be able to build a car, but can still use one. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}. _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
