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+title:     "Programming, as I see it"
+date:      2013-03-01 23:32:35+00:00
+permalink: /blog/2013/3/1/programming-as-i-see-it
+published: false
+author:
+    name: Gergely Polonkai
+    email: gergely@polonkai.eu
+---
+
+Since my age of around 11, I write code. I began with BASIC, which is, well,
+the most basic language I have ever seen. Simply writing
+
+{% highlight basic %}
+10 PRINT "Hello World!"
+{% endhighlight %}
+
+does the job (with Assembly it would be tens of lines as I recall). Then I
+moved to Pascal, then Delphi (which is basically the same thing). The next step
+was a bit longer, as I started learning more languages after this, like Perl
+(for dynamic web pages), C (for desktop applications), TCL (for eggdrop
+programming. Yes, I might have been a weird kid), PHP (again, for dynamic web
+pages. It was becoming mainstream back then).
+
+Many of my classmates looked down on me, as they thought I was a geek (hell I
+was, but I wouldn’t have confessed it then), and called me a nerd. For a few
+months maybe I was depressed, but after that I realised that this is the thing
+I want to do in my life, this is the thing I’m good at.
+
+Most people I ask why don’t they code say “it’s too hard”. I’ve attended some
+courses (both online and offline, and I was like “Whoa! Coding is extremely
+hard! What the hell! I will never learn it!”, but right after the course I
+realised that everything is just fine, I can still write programs, and it’s
+eeeeasy. So then, what’s the problem?
+
+After looking through many course papers, I found that most teachers do it
+totally wrong. A programming language is just that: a language. You don’t start
+learning Spanish by going into a classic literature conference in Madrid and
+doing a speech, but learn the basic vocabulary and grammar. The same goes for
+coding. You learn the vocabulary (the basic commands or keywords) and grammar
+(syntax). I had several ideas how this could be taught, just didn’t have the
+background to do it.
+
+The idea of teaching programming lingers in my head for years now, and a few
+days ago, I’ve bumped into [this
+video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU1xS07N-FA). So it seems that
+technology superstars like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg wants to do the same.
+Maybe they don’t have enough high quality coders at hand. Well of course,
+if teachers make it awfully hard to learn it! So a bunch of guys sat together
+and created [code.org](http://www.code.org/) to achieve my old dream. I like
+the idea. And although I have almost no visitor on this blog of mine, allow me
+to give you a few points on how I see programming.
+
+####  Great learning process
+
+When you write programs, especially during the first years, you adapt a new way
+of thinking and learning. If you learn it as an adult, it can be a bit of a
+pain, but as a child, it’s easy as learning how the wheels of those little cars
+spin).
+
+####  A job
+
+####  Art
+
+####  Magic
+