Can programming be a craft? I was thinking about this as I was reading Matthew Crawford’s excellent book The World Beyond Your Head.Much like Crawford’s earlier work Shop Class as Soulcraft ...

Of course, in most instances, programming languages don’t start as exercises in specification writing. Instead, one starts with a program that actually does something with the programming language.

The thinking is that of the 20 billion lines of code written each year, most of it repeats something that lots of programmers all over the globe have already done.

For non-techie individuals, programming languages are totally from another planet. Who cares about the complex patterns and codes of SQL, Java, C++, or Ruby--and the long list goes on? We should.

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