Programming for Cats

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lo_zamoyski · 1h ago

One of the sample pages claims that programming is about controlling devices.

That is not what programming is. Programming has nothing intrinsically to do with devices. We can, in a particular application of programming, be concerned with the control of a device as the domain, but that is not what programming is per se. You can program with paper and pencil.

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Programming for Cats

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