Why+program

Why program?
Has this page been overtaken by game making manifesto ? Is this a page for programming as work or programming for fun or educational programming? Crawford ties in with games programming and literacy. See Literacy wars in game making manifesto See [|my discussion] of game creation to help "//think outside of the square//". Tony 26sep06


 * Purpose of this page**: What good, convincing reasons would you give to someone to learn programming? Or to justify it's importance? Instead of taking computing out of the school curriculum (integrated curriculum), maybe we should be beefing it up? There is some overlap with the game making manifesto page, I agree, but still feel that game making manifesto is half baked, speculative, whereas this page has a more solid foundation. Computer Science has been around for longer? (Bill 27/9)

http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2006/08/purpose-of-programming.html (from Ward Cunningham's wiki)
 * to model a concept (anything) in order to learn more about it
 * reifying what can be conceived (reifying = convert abstract concept into a thing, materialise)
 * pleasure derived from abstract problem solving
 * free the human race

http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2006/08/you-should-learn-to-program.html "It will make you a better thinker. It's a new language that willtakeyou to new places. Different sorts of places than where a languagelike English will take you" Chris Crawford

Bernard Chazelle, "science now has two Esperantos, math and computer science." http://prince-web1.princeton.edu/archives/2006/05/08/news/15576.shtml