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		tomcorrigan on May 15, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: On Atwood's Please Don't Learn to Code You have missed the point. Your girlfriend did not need to learn to program in order to discover what can be achieved with a basic program. For the common woman or man the revelation of computing comes from seeing what can be achieved, not how it is achieved.

angersock on May 15, 2012 [–]

You cannot in good faith separate the what from the how when passing on the "revelation of computing". To do so promotes ignorance among the populace.

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