#92 Felienne Hermans, What is Programming?

Summary

Felienne Hermans has been asking the question "What is programming?", in this podcast she tells me why it is an important question and what she has found out.

Details

Who she is, what she does. Felienne's research into what programming is, why it is important. Her general findings. Excel as an intro to programming, Excel is functional. Programming with kids, code smells, code quality and how it affected understanding. It's hard to see beyond your own bad code. Programming as writing, making it appealing by comparing it to story telling. Transitioning to more formal programming. Programming Sucks article by Peter Welch. Encouraging people to learn programming, how can we help, some home work from Felienne.