Why this site exists
A short note on what this place is for, and a demo of what the tooling can do.
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I spent a career writing software, most of the last decade of it in fraud analytics, and the whole time I kept running into the same two problems.
The first is that people are taught programming backwards. They get handed a language and told the hard part is the punctuation. The second is that two completely reasonable people can be in the same conversation and get nothing out of it, because neither one can see inside the other's head.
Both of those are books now. This is where the parts that don't fit in a book go.
Writing by Shelly Gibbens
How to think like a programmer, even if you aren't one.
1 post Notebook 02Two reasonable people, two different operating systems, one collision neither of them can name.
1 post Notebook 03The writing life, the tools, and whatever doesn't belong in a book.
1 postA short note on what this place is for, and a demo of what the tooling can do.
ReadEvery beginner programming resource teaches the part the IDE already knows, and skips the part that actually makes the difference.
ReadMost damage between people is not malice. It is a misread of the mechanism, running unexamined for years.
ReadHow to Think Like a Programmer (Even If You Aren't One)
Finished. Coming soon.
A field guide to cognitive architectures and the collisions between them
In progress.
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