At first I would have said that I was teaching myself "computer programming." I threw myself into SICP and Knuth, devouring programming paradigms left and right, under the foolish delusion that the secrets that allowed programmers to make the software that I used and loved (and hated) would be under the next rock.
Now the pendulum has swung the other way, I've overcompensated: Lately I've been seeing software as if it were an entirely social process, as if the technical obstacles were a trivial afterthought if we could only agree how to put things together.
So here I'll share with you some notes on my progress as I continue seeking that happy middle, that small place where human need and understanding can make fragile contact with purity and abstraction. Wish me luck!
<3,
mungojelly
No comments:
Post a Comment