Of course anyone can code but there is a lot of terrible code out there.
There is a big difference between just doing it and doing it right.
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Of course anyone can code but there is a lot of terrible code out there.
There is a big difference between just doing it and doing it right.
This is great news! I would have killed for something like this as a kid.
High school utterly failed students like myself who wanted to go into computer science and it was hard to save up to buy $60 - $80 programming books when your bi-weekly paychecks were $100.
So you've literally never used anything else I see...
High school utterly failed students like myself who wanted to go into computer science and it was hard to save up to buy $60 - $80 programming books when your bi-weekly paychecks were $100.
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So you've literally never used anything else I see...
hmm..
Currently i used visual studio code to edit react-native , debug them in xcode and android studio..
Really weird for me.. you never meet me i said i never used other ide except xcode..
For me, Xcode seem nice to see but totally weird icon location ,interaction and the most annoy where do i clear all debug log.. damm annoying.
In mac, some i prefer old vi, nano just for quick edit rather then open text editor like visual studio code or textwrangler
Everyone can code is cool program. I taught myself to code when I was younger and it was a great experience in understanding computers and helping me learn to think carefully. Obviously, not everyone can code since some lack the intelligence or logical capacity. Nor should everyone code since it is a relatively narrow skillset that is incredibly helpful for those who need it but that does not include most people (nor should it ever). But for those who are interested it seems like a great effort for them to develop the skills and I wish I had it when I was starting out.
Says the company that managed to botch autocorrect to butcher our messages every time we try to type “I” and can’t be bothered to release a hot fix for it.
AI will replace all other jobs before it replaces programmers. And when it does, it will replace the programmers who are doing repetitive coding and such tasks, like QA and DevOps.
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Not to be confused with..
Pretty much this. But only worst. Most of the kids enrolled in this Swift class will be in for a rude awakening.
It's ironic that you would misspell "ulterior" in the above paragraph
Yes, which is insane. I say this having a CS degree and having taught CS in high school.
I don't think a logician and a chemist have very much in common in their work.
It is my opinion that there is no "STEM", "STEM" is a word made up by politicians to mean "non-useless degrees of all kinds".
Unpopular opinion: the best time to learn "coding" (i.e. the act of formalizing or, rather, encoding an algorithm in a given programming language) is... when you need to actually program a computer to do something.
The word "coding" gives me a stomach ache whenever it appears in the same sentence as "education" or "mathematics".
What, I think, students need to learn is problem solving, mathematics, formalization of problems, logic, abstraction, abstraction and, well, abstraction.
Otherwise you can teach all the "coding" you want, and you'll be stuck with "factorial" programs that get stuck in a while loop, "coded" in 64 different languages.
In my opinion, "coding" is more like "banging the keys on a piano".
Banging the keys is very entertaining, but it's better to have a clue about modes, keys, the circle of fifths and of course reading actual music (read: algorithms from papers) that you can later play on your own (read: implement in your favourite language).
And now, let the flame start!
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That is a very desirable outcome, and makes what I've written above ring all the more true.
In practice, however, program synthesis is not becoming viable in my lifetime or yours.
If it ever does, it is because somebody learned the fundamentals and did some pure, abstraction-heavy research, rather than because an army of Swift programmers banded together and Magically Did It.
If it ever happens, it is still useful to be able to specify and understand programs (see above) and, more importantly... have the formalism down that allows you to build the AI, if you want to stay in business.
(And no, it's a safe bet that, in Earth's lifetime, we're not getting an AI general enough to autonomously devise specifications and program synthesizers from something as general as "computer, how do we obtain world peace please")
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Seriously, is Tim Cook ever doing anything else than these SJW/Globalization PR stunts?
What a useless CEO, how about you fix the new macbook pro, among many other things that have went wrong these last 2 years...
What a useless CEO, how about you fix the new macbook pro, among many other things that have went wrong these last 2 years...
"Everyone can code" ... as long as you have this $1300 laptop!
I teach programming to middle school kids and the cost to entry for anything to do with Apple makes this a non starter.
I teach programming to middle school kids and the cost to entry for anything to do with Apple makes this a non starter.
No doubt. My code only needed minor changes to convert it to 4. Package.swift picked up numerous changes, but luckily the Swift 3 Package.swift is still supported. It's been a pretty smooth transition.
And at that point we will be done as a humanity
That's called "scripting" and it's been "the thing to put things together" for the last fifty years or so. And believe me, writing a script to transform some file requires a wholly different (and much simpler) skillset than the software engineering needed to build complex apps.
I guess Xcode was never meant to support JavaScript or HTML, I always thought of it as an IDE for native development.
Or any Linux system. You know they ported the compiler, right?Everyone Can Code, but only if that code is compiled on a Fu*@%£g Mac!
It sucks at that too. I used to kinda like Xcode, but they screwed it up with the Swift transition. Code completion and checking are buggy and unreliable, as are all the other tools like finding references, refactoring, etc. The entire thing randomly crashes or leaks 15GiB of memory sometimes. The Swift compiler itself is horrible. Takes forever and even segfaults sometimes, but it used to be worse. The debugger is so broken that we rely on print statements. It feels great coding in ObjC because all that stuff works fine with it.
The UI has always had issues like no tabs (edit: oops, it has tabs but poor split-window support), general clunkiness with trying to edit multiple things at once, and no Vim controls. Heck, the only reason I don't just use Vim is Apple coding practice demands super long function names, and Swift has complicated syntax rules that I'll never remember, so I need the code checker to eventually flag before I compile and offer the hints like "we randomly changed how String indexes work for the 20th time; here's how to fix."
Sorry for the rant, but I'm sick of both Swift and Xcode getting in the way. I already hate front-end dev enough as it is. The backend stuff I do in Python feels so nice in comparison.
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I get what you're saying. Definitely not fond of "computer science" classes that teach coding practices. But when you start programming in your spare time, you tend to encounter these conceptual problems, especially if you focus on things like networking, database, machine learning, etc. I remember self-discovering radix sort.
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Probably won’t change your thoughts much, but Xcode does have tabs now. I just noticed it was one of your grievances.
You're right. I missed that. I guess they used to not, and I gave up on checking if they'd added them yet. Thanks, I'll be using that... except for some reason, it lags and makes the entire window go white for a couple of seconds when I open one :/