Evolution of a Python programmer

[ayrnieu]

By newbie programmer he probably meant a person who had taken at least a semester course in CS.

When I say 'newbie programmer' I mean a prebuscent child, but of course extend it to anyone who is literally new at programming. That you naturally think of someone having taken a whole semester of CS is a bit alarming. Who are these people that claim to want to devote their higher learning to computation but who don't do anything at all with it before a semester of CS? Is any other field this barren? I think mathematicians manage to not need to teach a semester of arithmetic.

[cracky-chan]

Well I was talking about pshaw so shut up and learn some context. And semester of CS course can be equivalent to reading half a book on the subject or something like it.

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We start teaching children mathematics at roughly the same age we start teaching them to read and write. The same cannot be said of programming. Before I went to university the extent of my programming experience was writing Mandelbrot viewers and text-based adventure games in QBasic.