{"id":15803,"date":"2016-01-04T12:47:05","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T18:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15803"},"modified":"2016-01-04T12:47:05","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T18:47:05","slug":"overcoming-intuition-in-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15803","title":{"rendered":"Overcoming Intuition in Programming"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u00a0I get a lot of questions from aspiring programmers on what\u2019s the best tool or languages to learn. It\u2019s almost always a premature question to ask. I used to come up with answers like \u201cdepending on what you\u2019re building\u201d or \u201cpick a beginner friendly community\u201d or \u201cinvest in a growing language\u201d. I think all of these are good answers, but it doesn\u2019t really matter that early on in a programmer\u2019s learning journey. It\u2019s all the same when you\u2019re essentially learning how to compute. Furthermore, these sort of answers enable the culture of tooling obsession.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/amasad.me\/2016\/01\/03\/overcoming-intuition-in-programming\/\">Overcoming Intuition in Programming<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0I get a lot of questions from aspiring programmers on what\u2019s the best tool or languages to learn. It\u2019s almost always a premature question to ask. I used to come up with answers like \u201cdepending on what you\u2019re building\u201d or &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15803\">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":[54],"tags":[670,1060,1262,713],"class_list":["post-15803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","tag-algorithms","tag-computer-science","tag-framework","tag-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15803","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=15803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15804,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15803\/revisions\/15804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}