Mainly folks who did not start out programming for the sake of programming, but were led to it indirectly.
Possibly better: their first use of computers was not programming. I.e. they did not have to use programming languages in the course work or job, but were self-motivated via, for example, building plug-ins for games or wordpress. -- Owen On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Joshua Thorp <jth...@redfish.com> wrote: > Which was the second generation of programmers? > > > On Nov 7, 2012, at 8:46 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: > > Nifty: Udacity has a HTML5/JS/CSS class that builds a game as the > structure of the class. > > That's interesting to me because I found so many of the second generation > of programmers got into programming via games. > > http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs255/CourseRev/1 > > > Education, is you getting sweet? > > -- Owen > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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