Comments on: Are Storytellers The Best Programmers?

By: fiwedding

fiwedding — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:23:24 +0000

It's a difficult thing to listen to feedback from your initial users, the first 25,000, and do the opposite of what they recommend. You alienate your "support base" etc etc. Tough situation.

By: syabac

syabac — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:01:30 +0000

for me, the storytellers is very useful.

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By: Dan B

Dan B — Wed, 05 May 2010 23:22:20 +0000

Great comments by all – particularly Andy and Parker’s on the value of hands-on tinkering. I have been fascinated by the current “tinkerers’ movement”, addressed philosophically in Matthew B. Crawford’s short, provocative work, Shop Class as Soulcraft, and practically by Make magazine and others. It seems to me that there are also important social components to maintaining/restoring this traditional form of American innovation http://(http://www.nutsandboltsfoundation.org/assets/pdf/Make-Magazine.pdf).” target=”_blank”>(http://www.nutsandboltsfoundation.org/assets/pdf/Make-Magazine.pdf).

By: Dan B

Dan B — Wed, 05 May 2010 23:22:20 +0000

Great comments by all – particularly Andy and Parker’s on the value of hands-on tinkering. I have been fascinated by the current “tinkerers’ movement”, addressed philosophically in Matthew B. Crawford’s short, provocative work, Shop Class as Soulcraft, and practically by Make magazine and others. It seems to me that there are also important social components to maintaining/restoring this traditional form of American innovation (http://www.nutsandboltsfoundation.org/assets/pdf/Make-Magazine.pdf).

By: @starttowonder

@starttowonder — Tue, 04 May 2010 01:32:03 +0000

You know why you have so many Indians as software engineers (apart from family pressure).. Most of them have learnt to program in their middle school. I remember having started writing addition/subtraction programs in BASIC when i was in 6th grade. And this was for all the students in the 6th grade.
And because of competition between the schools pretty much every school had these courses.

No this doesnt make everyone software engineer. But what this does is remove the fear in one that computer programming is just for geeks or too tough.