I recently came across Peter Naur’s 1985 essay “Programming as Theory Building.” I am unsure how well his argument holds up nearly 30 years later in professional software development, but in computer science education, especially at a liberal arts college, it is an absolute revelation. In many ways, it perfectly captures why I detest the term "coding" and prefer “programming”. I wish I could find a hard-copy of Computing: A Human Activity.
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