{"id":12045,"date":"2013-12-26T15:25:15","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T21:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=12045"},"modified":"2013-12-26T15:25:15","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T21:25:15","slug":"the-two-cultures-of-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=12045","title":{"rendered":"The Two Cultures of Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>There are now two main cultures in computing: Most computer users treat software as a tool for getting tasks done, while programmers hold conversations with their software. One big challenge when teaching programming, no matter in what language, is getting students used to a conversation-oriented programmer culture, which is very different than a tool-oriented user culture.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/pgbovine.net\/two-cultures-of-computing.htm\">Philip Guo &#8211; The Two Cultures of Computing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are now two main cultures in computing: Most computer users treat software as a tool for getting tasks done, while programmers hold conversations with their software. One big challenge when teaching programming, no matter in what language, is getting &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=12045\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287],"tags":[830,297,1247,1015],"class_list":["post-12045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interfaces","tag-cli","tag-gui","tag-philosophy","tag-unix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12046,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12045\/revisions\/12046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}