Thread by @amyhoy

this is a fatally flawed argument. who can tell me why?

https://twitter.com/DavidAnalyst/status/1096501398190080001

• wild assertions of "what programmers are good at"
• totally illogical presumptions about how education works (hint: there isn't a single body of pedagogical research that says 'examples aren't important')
• no clue about what expertise is
• "i'm clearly a universal case!"

he also claimed that because modeling database and writing SQL *involves* set theory that it *IS* set theory, which is like, a rectangle is not a square bb

coding isn't about WRITING LINES OF CODE.

it's about building a model of the problem domain, holding it in your head, and THEN using the tool at hand to get the result you want

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just like database modeling and querying

watch out for talk about a *task or hobby* as if it makes someone a unique kind of animal:
"programmers are great at _____"
"programmers suck at _______"

can't be supported! LITERALLY the only thing that defines a programmer is PROGRAMMING. nothing else.