Think like a Programmer

Allen Downey talks about how thinking like a programmer will improve your code and your brain!

[arabiccompprograming]

You pick a guide book on C++ for example, you follow along and you get the gist of what each small program entails. you get to know some aspects of how each program behavors, but when you are at your computer with no text books no guidance
material, just you and your computer and you want to write your own made-up program. you
then realize what it is to be a programmer. You then ask yourself I reference alot of
material from books, but where is my mental reference collection of programming
skills. ??? this is what matters. I walk away completely from the computer, from the books, from the reference material, I sit down with just a pen, pencil, rubber and white blank paper, I write and write, and write, this writing morphs into a algorithm, I then am able to psedocode steps, I then write more, and more and more, from my mental collection of
what I can remember, I then begin to structure logically something connective, it's starting to form, starting to start. I feel levels of untested, unclarified success, I know that I now have some capacity to write programming. I am over the moon. I keep going, and going and face more and more challenges, I test snippets of code, some begin to work, many don't and I continue, continue, hoping to reach a understanding. What are
your thoughts guys.

[panospanou]

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Been thinking like a programmer for quite some time!

[Brainwashed]

I use Allen Downey's ThinkStats for reference all the time! This interview is excellent, too.

[onurislak]

i agree with this guy, it means every time if you write your own code and find some bugs, it means you evaulate your brain, your brain comes elastic and flexible, so you adapt yourself more complex programs when it comes to you.

[DistortedV]

I love python, it's like poetry: concise yet expressive

[pedropablooviedovera]

I try with C, C++, Python but my war's horse is Object Pascal con FPC/Lazarus

[arabiccompprograming]

Are you saying the more coding you do, could you say the more writing you do, writing in a state of a programming mind., writing with programming in own mindset. coding within the brain, you have to think code minded, you have to get the mind to practically think how to think computingly. It's not a easy task to do, The brain can train itself to think this way, and most of the time before thinking of writing code, one has no alternative but to think this way.
Do you have to be assertive, or passive in ones thinking, I don't know, but being assertive logically with one's brain does allow one to unambigiously think in order.

[DistortedV]

I love python, it's like poetry: concise yet expressive