shokwave comments on PSA: Learn to code - Less Wrong

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Comment author: shokwave 27 May 2012 03:44:27PM *  2 points [-]

If you're motivated to learn coding because of the effects it has on your thinking, there is absolutely no better place to start than The Little Schemer. Seriously.

I am tempted, in fact, to claim that The Little Schemer (and Scheme, and SICP, and Lisp...) will teach an even higher standard of thinking than other programming languages. I have some evidence for this, in the form of Paul Graham's essay on the matter.