"Coding is not ‘fun’, it’s technically and ethically complex"
https://aeon.co/ideas/coding-is-not-fun-it-s-technically-and-ethically-complex
Some very odd framing in this article. We shouldn't oversimplify #coding, but saying that coders need to be superhuman is more damaging than saying it's easy. The comparison to structural engineering is silly. Plenty of structural engineers cut their teeth on lego, which is fun and simple. Being a good professional coder *is* hard (but not superhumanly so!) - the reason the structural engineering analogy fails is because the easy and fun version of coding is still coding - it's just coding with less rigour and bureaucracy. That aside, I very much like: "#Programming is not a detail that can be left to ‘technicians’ under the false pretence that their choices will be ‘scientifically neutral’. Societies are too complex: the algorithmic is #political."