I have an idea that might help people learn to program. Let's talk about it.

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This is stupid. Unless you have the worst teacher ever, when learning to code it is made abundantly clear that the language is simply a way to express the behavior you want. In every programming class I ever took, from middle school all the way to college, the first day would always mention that the language we'd be using is just one of the many available. Yes, some of the class would inevitably be dedicated to learning the language itself, but the language was simply a means to express the actual concepts like data structures and control flow and monads and imperative vs functional paradigms. Essentially this video is obvious masturbatory wishy-washy handwaving waffling BS that is suggesting the equivalent of learning to talk without being taught any specific grammar.

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You are saying the same thing he said but then claiming that what he said is bullshit.

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I'm saying it is obvious and not some revelation that we need to use to rethink how people are taught coding. Coding has been taught this way forever and it's how everyone with a formal education learned it.

edit: also I am specifically not going as far as the retard einstein wannabe in the video; he's implying with his flowery monologue that a language isn't necessary to learn coding, which like I've said is stupid. It doesn't matter which you start with, but you need one to teach the concepts.