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“Programming is a means to an end, not an end in itself. You should be trying to do as little of it as possible to make the thing that you want.”
People who work with code leave messages with each update they make. These are their (short) stories.
The executive director of Northwestern’s Knight News Innovation Lab says j-schools need to teach students to be open-minded about their skills — and that means learning at least the basics of programming.
Plus: The debate over coding for laypeople, Twitter’s new email digests, and everything else that went on this week in media and tech. Mark Coddington
It’s great that it’s gotten easier for non-programmers to write code and build things. But that doesn’t mean we should forget the merits of weirder, whimsical, gloriously impractical approaches. Jacob Harris
January 24, 2011
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