Exposure Quote by Edsger Dijkstra

Mentally mutilated potential programmers beyond hope of regeneration.

— Edsger Dijkstra

Programming in Basic causes brain damage.

— Edsger Dijkstra

You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up.

— Tony Hoare

Giving the kids a programming environment of any sort, whether it's a tool like Squeak or Scratch or Logo to write programs in a…

— Nicholas Negroponte

“Novice programmers don’t yet have the skills to write simple code.”

— Sandi Metz

My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more…

— Bram Cohen

Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I…

— John Carmack

Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.

— Alan Turing

“Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn’t take it away from you.”

— John Carmack

I think of the company advertising "Thought Processors" or the college pretending that learning BASIC suffices or at least helps, whereas the teaching of…

— Edsger Dijkstra

Teaching someone to program is like giving them a superpower.

— Hilary Mason

My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for grammar, for…

— Seymour Papert