Posts Tagged ‘StackOverflow’

Dumber Developers?

Are sites like Stack Overflow and their ilk creating dumb developers?

When I was learning to code as a child in the 1980s, I would read something out of a Zx Spectrum magazine, laboriously enter the code, and then run the programme usually to find a typo stopped the entire programme from working as intended.

A few “L Break Into Program”‘s later, and plenty of source code reading, I’d gradually debug why things weren’t working and correct them until my hangman game or frogger clone ran as intended. When I write code now, I still often find that, for one reason or another, the code does not generate the desired output on the first run through. Read more…