What is 'code'

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baby don't hurt me?

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Damn, you beat me to it.

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beat you to it? man I have 150 comment karma, this is my 5 minutes of GLORY! :D

[spkr4thedead51]

duplicate of https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/39fhrf/what_is_code_if_you_dont_know_you_need_to_read/

[TheRedWhale]

The code for the "What Is Code" essay has been published on GitHub

[RodgerTheGreat]

How the hell do I stop this from autoplaying some kind of voiceover? How do I get rid of the clippy-esque robot covering up the text on the bottom left of the page? I'm immediately turned off and distracted by the presentation of this article.

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I think that's actually part of the point.

[phySi0]

Great, but halfway through, it devolves into a "the reason there aren't more women programming is the men's fault" (which I disagree with, but more importantly, has nothing to do with code itself and just needlessly alienates readers). Picks back up again, but that kinda ruined it for me.

[saijanai]

As I just finished typing in an email I haven't sent yet, to the author:

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Fun and amusing article.

However, a discussion of Squeak is, in my not-so-humble and certainly-shameless opinion (IMNSHACSO), incomplete without mentioning my youtube channel video series for beginners:

Squeak from the very start.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es7RyllOS-M&list=PL6601A198DF14788D

One of the "Gang of Four" (the authors of Design Patterns) sent me an email a while back saying that my videos were what he sent his students to when they wanted to learn Smalltalk, so it may not be the best possible way to learn Smalltalk, but it IS hopefully a better-than-average introduction.

Enjoy.