I learned the language of computer programming in my 50s – here’s what I discovered
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/31/learning-computer-programming-language-coding-devil-stack-andrew-smith
A writer with no technical background recounts his incredible journey into the realm of coding and the invaluable lesson it taught him about the modern world
One day in 2017 I had a realisation that seems obvious now but had the power to shock back then: almost everything I did was being mediated by computer code. And as the trickle of code into my world became a flood, that world seemed to be getting not better but worse in approximate proportion. I began to wonder why.
I learned the language of computer programming in my 50s – here’s what I discovered
Sat Aug 31, 4:32pm UTC
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/31/learning-computer-programming-language-coding-devil-stack-andrew-smith
> A writer with no technical background recounts his incredible journey into the realm of coding and the invaluable lesson it taught him about the modern world
> One day in 2017 I had a realisation that seems obvious now but had the power to shock back then: almost everything I did was being mediated by computer code. And as the trickle of code into my world became a flood, that world seemed to be getting not better but worse in approximate proportion. I began to wonder why.