Even though Roy has stellar academic credentials...
"Roy graduated from Harvard College. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, where he was also a lecturer in undergraduate math and economics."
...learning to code also involves doing projects where you run into problems and you learn and figure out how to solve those problems.
Over time.
Sometimes by spending hours on end only to have to wake up the next day with the answer.
It's certainly not just rote memorization to be tackled like learning latin or another language. Where accuracy and efficiency is not as important. And you can make mistakes and by context humans can figure out what you are saying or writing.) Or like running a ski resort and learning how to ski etc.
I think this is the most telling thing of what he hopes to achieve:
"I sometimes feel like a newspaper publisher who has to take his editor’s word for it that the articles are good."
I don't see how he will come close to devoting enough time and learning enough to make any judgment on whether the programming is good or not.
He also follows that sentence with a really good point "You trust your people, you know you could never write the way they do, but it would still be good to be able to read."
"Roy graduated from Harvard College. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, where he was also a lecturer in undergraduate math and economics."
...learning to code also involves doing projects where you run into problems and you learn and figure out how to solve those problems.
Over time.
Sometimes by spending hours on end only to have to wake up the next day with the answer.
It's certainly not just rote memorization to be tackled like learning latin or another language. Where accuracy and efficiency is not as important. And you can make mistakes and by context humans can figure out what you are saying or writing.) Or like running a ski resort and learning how to ski etc.
I think this is the most telling thing of what he hopes to achieve:
"I sometimes feel like a newspaper publisher who has to take his editor’s word for it that the articles are good."
I don't see how he will come close to devoting enough time and learning enough to make any judgment on whether the programming is good or not.