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0 pointseksemplar7y ago0 comments

I think you misunderstood me. It’s not the abstraction that’s important. It’s the problem solving that comes with knowing how the understanding.

How can you really be tasked with solving problems if your first response is to look for a node package that does it for you? And that’s what JavaScript teaches you.

I’m not saying you shouldn’t use node packages. But learning to do that as your first steps into programming is robbing you of learning how to use code to solve problems.

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beaconstudios7y ago

Ah I see - so your issue is with the proliferation of tiny libraries associated with NPM?

That's not inherently an issue with Javascript. I agree that solving every issue with a library is bad in the same way that solving every issue by copy-pasting from stack overflow is bad, but it's not inherent to the language. I primarily work in Javascript these days and I've never actually seen a project that relies on an excess of micro-libraries. A good teacher will teach students to understand programming logic, not to lean on excessive crutches.

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0 pointseksemplar7y ago0 comments

I think you misunderstood me. It’s not the abstraction that’s important. It’s the problem solving that comes with knowing how the understanding.

How can you really be tasked with solving problems if your first response is to look for a node package that does it for you? And that’s what JavaScript teaches you.

I’m not saying you shouldn’t use node packages. But learning to do that as your first steps into programming is robbing you of learning how to use code to solve problems.

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beaconstudios7y ago

Ah I see - so your issue is with the proliferation of tiny libraries associated with NPM?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse