My job explained
I'm re-reading Douglas Adams' book Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. In the book, Adams explains my job in an interesting way:
"...If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That forces you to sort it out in your own mind. And the more slow and dim-witted your pupil, the more you have to break things down into more and more simple ideas. And that's really the essence of programming. By the time you've sorted out a complicated idea into little steps that even a stupid machine can deal with, you've certainly learned something about it yourself."
That's a pretty good description of what I do. Maybe that's why I like both programming and teaching so much.
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That actually makes a lot of sense. I know I learned a lot when I was doing more programming. It affects a lot of what I do now, and how I look at learning theories. It's an interesting thing to have in my background that most people in my present don't have. It's a different perspective.