Rodent Regatta

WHY STEVE CAN’T PROGRAMThis is tremendously helpful – I’ll try harder!

Just What Is Programming?. Though I don’t think I’m particularly great at it, I was pretty much brought up in ”the old school” of programming – editor, complier, linker. I’ve often argued that ”HTML isn’t programming” and gotten annoyed when someone refers to ”programming the computer” when all I was doing was using it (working with a spreadsheet, for example, or adding a program to a PC’s autoexec.bat file). Dan Bricklin’s Why Johnny can’t program puts a whole different perspective on things, and helps me understand where these other folks are coming from. Good job. [Steven’s Weblog]