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We should rethink how we teach people to code (deadsimpletech.com)
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Another excellent piece from Iris Meredith - strongly recommend reading if you want an idea of how to un-fuck software as a field.

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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I got my start with line-number BASIC, MS-DOS batch files and x86 assembly.

Oh, and once in college, I got really high and made a Visual Basic program that had no graphical user interface.

[–] lproven@awful.systems 2 points 3 weeks ago

a Visual Basic program that had no graphical user interface.

I approve of this sort of thing.