alt Hacker NewsI would’ve walked for days to a CompUSA and spent my life savings if there was anything remotely equivalent to this when I was learning C on my Macintosh 4400 in 1997
People don’t appreciate what they have
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lifetimerubyist • last Saturday at 4:44 PM
It’s worse. They’re proud they don’t know.
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Did you actually learn C? Be thankful nothing like this existed in 1997.
A machine generating code you don't understand is not the way to learn a programming language. It's a way to create software without programming.
These tools can be used as learning assistants, but the vast majority of people don't use them as such. This will lead to a collective degradation of knowledge and skills, and the proliferation of shoddily built software with more issues than anyone relying on these tools will know how to fix. At least people who can actually program will be in demand to fix this mess for years to come.