How to teach your girlfriend programming
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How to teach your girlfriend programming
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Re: How to teach your girlfriend programming
#2Reading this I'm reminded of Alisdair Gray's "Poor Things"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_Things
...wherein the narrator believes he has brought a woman to life, Frankenstein-style, and is teaching her about the world, but at the end it turns out that he was a fantasist and Bella is only odd to him because she is a modern independent woman (a suffragette, etc), and he is mired in the past.
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#3Hahahah! You're one lucky guy! I have always known teaching someone programming is pretty simple (I managed to teach simple C++ to my 9-yr-old sister and also to my 74-yr-old Granny). But it was easier to teach them because my sister was too young to have the "I'll never understand that" barrier and my granny just loved the attention i was giving her so she put all her effort into learning what i was teaching her.
So can I teach it to my girlfriend? Probably not. Partially because she's technologically challenged (she's cute that way) and as a medical student she already has tons on her plate.
But I must say I share your dreams of having a girl with whom I could discuss tech stuff the same way i discuss it with my friends
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#4If the only thing you can talk about is programming, then it is not the girlfriend who has to learn new things.
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#6This is kind of like the ways I have helped my boyfriend learn programming except for how it is hopelessly mired in the idea that programmers are guys who have cutely technologically impaired girlfriends.
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#7Hahahah! You're one lucky guy! I have always known teaching someone programming is pretty simple (I managed to teach simple C++ to my 9-yr-old sister and also to my 74-yr-old Granny). But it was easier to teach them because my sister was too young to have the "I'll never understand that" barrier and my granny just loved the attention i was giving her so she put all her effort into learning what i was teaching her. So…
I have taught many "technologically challenged" people how to code. They say cute things like
... okay so how do I "compress" this file
... i used that "tag thingie" but its not working
but they still learn it and are able to build websites sometimes even faster then the "technologically exposed".
In general technologically challenged doesn't mean stupid. Its just a lack of exposure to the technologies and in time they get the hang of it.
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#8A bit too much of a patronizing tone in this article... it even felt quite sexist at some points.
Re: How to teach your girlfriend programming
#9Hahahah! You're one lucky guy! I have always known teaching someone programming is pretty simple (I managed to teach simple C++ to my 9-yr-old sister and also to my 74-yr-old Granny). But it was easier to teach them because my sister was too young to have the "I'll never understand that" barrier and my granny just loved the attention i was giving her so she put all her effort into learning what i was teaching her. So…
Nicely done :) You're right, it's mostly about them wanting to learn and having the time and energy to do it.
Re: How to teach your girlfriend programming
#10Hahahah! You're one lucky guy! I have always known teaching someone programming is pretty simple (I managed to teach simple C++ to my 9-yr-old sister and also to my 74-yr-old Granny). But it was easier to teach them because my sister was too young to have the "I'll never understand that" barrier and my granny just loved the attention i was giving her so she put all her effort into learning what i was teaching her. So…
I have taught many "technologically challenged" people how to code. They say cute things like ... okay so how do I "compress" this file ... i used that "tag thingie" but its not working but they still learn it and are able to build websites sometimes even faster then the "technologically exposed". In general technologically challenged doesn't mean stupid. Its just a lack of exposure to the technologies and in time th…
Exactly, being "technologically challenged" isn't a bad thing, it just means you spent a lot of time in completely different areas. Technology isn't something special, it's just "yet another thing" that can be learned.