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Programming isn’t coding (2020)

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Speak English to me: The secret world of programmers

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Yes, you should still learn to code

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Foundational knowledge is worth a thousand tools

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ChatGPT, the Abacus, and Education

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How can you not be romantic about programming? (2020)

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Software engineering changed my life

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The Next Mainstream Programming Language: A Game Developer’s Perspective (2005) [pdf]

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The harsh truth of video games programming

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How to help a programming student get unstuck

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How I learned to program

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Work on interesting problems. Not interesting tech

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How necessary are the programming fundamentals?

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Programming is hard

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How an Anti-TypeScript “JavaScript developer” like me became a TypeScript fan

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How can you not be romantic about programming? (2020)

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The Mediocre Programmer

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Being good at coding competitions correlates negatively with job performance

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The Hacker Way: How I taught my nephew to program

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Why Can't I Reproduce Their Results?

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You’re not writing code, you’re solving problems

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Learning to code vs. learning to automate

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Systems thinking as important as ever for new coders

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The Newbie Photographer’s Survival Guide

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Advice to new programmers

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Your live coding demo is boring me (2015)

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Teaching CS in the schools

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Teach Programming to become a better programmer

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How I learned to program

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Advice from a 19 Year Old Girl and Software Developer

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Good at programming competitions does not equal good on the job [video]

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John Maeda: If You Want to Survive in Design, You Better Learn to Code

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Talks that changed the way I think about programming

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Programming Has Changed My Life

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Not Your Problem

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How I learned to program

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Stop saying learning to code is easy

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"I know how to program, but I don't know what to program"

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No such thing as “real programming” (2015)

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Writing code doesn't mix well with oration

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Don’t Call Yourself a Developer If You Don’t Code

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Interview by a 15 Year Old

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Tales of coding from a beginner

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One of the biggest mistakes I’ve made in my career

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The Strange Appeal of Watching Coders Code

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Programming competitions correlate negatively with being good on the job

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Thousands of people are watching this guy code a search engine

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Important Things to Remember When Coding

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A Site That Teaches You to Code Well Enough to Get a Job

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Don’t Believe Anyone Who Tells You Learning To Code Is Easy

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You Don't Want to Think Like a Programmer

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Don't Learn to Code, Learn to Program – But Come Back in 10 Years

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Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Learning How to Code

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On Game Development

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Teaching Someone To Code Is Partly A Hardware Problem

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On Being A Designer And A Developer: Not Quite Unicorn Rare

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Programming is Terrible

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On Atwood's Please Don't Learn to Code

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Advice From An Old Programmer

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This is Why You Spent All that Time Learning to Program

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Nobody Wants to Learn How to Program

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How I Learned to Program

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All Programmers Are Self-Taught

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I Make Dreams Come True

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Why I'm learning to code - Roy Bahat, President at IGN Entertainment

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The “designers should code” bullshit and a not so new idea

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If You Can Think, Design & Code, You Win

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Advice From An Old Programmer

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"My current theory is that programming is quite literally writing."

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Programming is a Super Power

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Programmer problem solving sequence: should it be like this?

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Write code like you just learned how to program

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The Two Things about Computer Programming

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DHH: How do I learn to program?

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An interview by a 7th grader

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Three lessons I learnt from porting Diablo

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Nobody told me it’s impossible, so I did it

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Tech predictions for 2024 and beyond

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Using AI to teach how to code, remember you still need to think for yourself

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Show HN: Replay your typing in a few lines of JavaScript

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AI copilots are changing how coding is taught

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Solving the Worst Problem in Programming Education: Windows

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I'm tired of fixing customers' AI generated code

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The art of programming and why I won't use LLM

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Why You Should Learn Linux (As a Developer)

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