nhamann comments on I want to learn programming - Less Wrong

7 Post author: benelliott 26 March 2011 10:40AM

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Comment author: nhamann 26 March 2011 04:16:27PM 5 points [-]

Can't imagine the other commenters learned programming by jumping into Scheme or Haskell, or reading SICP, or whatever it is they're recommending :-)

Agreeing with this. I love CS theory, and I love SICP, but I learned to program by basically ignoring all that and hacking together stuff that I wanted to make. If you want to learn to program, you should probably make things first.