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Old 19th August 2008
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So everyone who wants to use a programming language just to save time and automate some tasks should learn everything there is to know about computers?

That has nothing to do with teaching anyone to fish, and everything about making a unnecessary steep learning curve and making things overly complicated ...

Maybe one of the better accomplishments of the last 10 years in computing, is that is has been made accessible for almost everyone, things like programming, graphic design, 3D animating, making music, etc. has been made so easy that almost everyone can learn it if they invest the time, without having to invest a six year university study.

It would seem that some people think that ``their way'' is the only way, and that everything else is something of a lesser art, not worth pursuing at all ... This doesn't make any sense, there is nothing wrong with learning just Python (Or Java, Perl, Ruby, PHP etc.), the whole point of a high-level language is that you don't have to worry about the low-level stuff ... Knowledge of the low-level stuff would probably benefit, but it's not needed, and certainly not for beginning programmers.
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