People on this board have talked about programming as a gear in your brain that, to a first approximation, you have or you don’t. I’m wondering if there’s some well put-together resource you can direct someone with zero experience and just a web-browser to and say “if you’re having fun an hour from now, you have the gear, good luck”—maybe something on Khan academy?
(I learned to program a long time ago, and I started with BASIC program listings in my math textbook—I don’t actually know what the optimal onramps are now.)
Checking for the Programming Gear
People on this board have talked about programming as a gear in your brain that, to a first approximation, you have or you don’t. I’m wondering if there’s some well put-together resource you can direct someone with zero experience and just a web-browser to and say “if you’re having fun an hour from now, you have the gear, good luck”—maybe something on Khan academy?
(I learned to program a long time ago, and I started with BASIC program listings in my math textbook—I don’t actually know what the optimal onramps are now.)