Great question! Combining those skills could be helpful in a few ways:
1. Understanding the possibilities and limitations of code
2. Understanding how to clearly communicate the desired outcome to a highly skilled programmer (or via language to something like ChatGPT!)
3. Providing leadership in the tech world: many complaints I hear from software developers are around clueless leadership. Being able to speak (write?) the language gives some street cred.
Wow Claire, even with your interest as a child, that's a lot to learn particularly in a MOOC course (I think they have low completion rates). Congrats for finishing and following your interest to learn something new. I enjoyed your YT video too, I'm not going to lie, I somehow fell for your beach trick haha. I think learning Python will surprise you in some way in the future if it hasn't already. I'm starting to believe there are no accidents, that everything comes together one way or another. Or maybe the purpose was to follow this childhood excitement. Either way, very cool to see and read about!
Python hasn't surprised me yet, but I'm sure it carved some new neural pathways. I didn't practice enough to get automatic recall. If it comes up in the future I'm going to need to scour the rust off! Thank you for the encouragement.
That computer look epic. And learning Basic! Sometimes I wish experienced this kind of tinkering in those times - it must have felt like scifi?! (I guess a bit like AI now 😅)
I took the mit courses too. It’s good for foundational CS knowledge but, I agree with you, if the goal is to learn some elementary coding there are better options.
I don’t know if you have tried it but chatGPT and replit are great tools to tinker with coding with a practical day-to-day purpose in mind. Chatgpt helps fill-in the blanks. And to get something up and running quickly on replit is a breeze 😉
Scifi sounds about right. I was scrolling through some old family videos to find a screen grab of it, and found a clip where my dad was show-and-telling a friend about "the most advanced database of its kind", where you can store customer information, and sort lists by any element. That was advanced in 1984 😅
I have not really played around with chatGPT or its coding tools. Probably would have made that course much easier, haha! While writing this I felt an itch to tinker with coding again. Maybe this is a good excuse. Would love to chat about this if you or anyone else is interested.
I agree there is a demand for this! However I see the potential for paths a bit differently. To me, the default path is simply going along without thought or reflection, being on autopilot and following the "should" narrative.
Figuring out how to serve a purpose in business can be congruent with a "pathless path", as long as it's intentional and aligned with one's values. That's my take at least!
As a people person who understands how to code, I wonder how those two could be combined?
Great question! Combining those skills could be helpful in a few ways:
1. Understanding the possibilities and limitations of code
2. Understanding how to clearly communicate the desired outcome to a highly skilled programmer (or via language to something like ChatGPT!)
3. Providing leadership in the tech world: many complaints I hear from software developers are around clueless leadership. Being able to speak (write?) the language gives some street cred.
Wow Claire, even with your interest as a child, that's a lot to learn particularly in a MOOC course (I think they have low completion rates). Congrats for finishing and following your interest to learn something new. I enjoyed your YT video too, I'm not going to lie, I somehow fell for your beach trick haha. I think learning Python will surprise you in some way in the future if it hasn't already. I'm starting to believe there are no accidents, that everything comes together one way or another. Or maybe the purpose was to follow this childhood excitement. Either way, very cool to see and read about!
Python hasn't surprised me yet, but I'm sure it carved some new neural pathways. I didn't practice enough to get automatic recall. If it comes up in the future I'm going to need to scour the rust off! Thank you for the encouragement.
That computer look epic. And learning Basic! Sometimes I wish experienced this kind of tinkering in those times - it must have felt like scifi?! (I guess a bit like AI now 😅)
I took the mit courses too. It’s good for foundational CS knowledge but, I agree with you, if the goal is to learn some elementary coding there are better options.
I don’t know if you have tried it but chatGPT and replit are great tools to tinker with coding with a practical day-to-day purpose in mind. Chatgpt helps fill-in the blanks. And to get something up and running quickly on replit is a breeze 😉
Scifi sounds about right. I was scrolling through some old family videos to find a screen grab of it, and found a clip where my dad was show-and-telling a friend about "the most advanced database of its kind", where you can store customer information, and sort lists by any element. That was advanced in 1984 😅
I have not really played around with chatGPT or its coding tools. Probably would have made that course much easier, haha! While writing this I felt an itch to tinker with coding again. Maybe this is a good excuse. Would love to chat about this if you or anyone else is interested.
I come from the world of geologists and PhD petroleum engineers. Same issue, different application.
The world is hungry for those who can bridge/translate the world of numbers and code to business or other decisions.
But that would involve going back into the default path......
I agree there is a demand for this! However I see the potential for paths a bit differently. To me, the default path is simply going along without thought or reflection, being on autopilot and following the "should" narrative.
Figuring out how to serve a purpose in business can be congruent with a "pathless path", as long as it's intentional and aligned with one's values. That's my take at least!