A happy little binary tree: learning to code from Bob Ross
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[Barak Pearlmutter] would bring his projector and laptop, sit down in front of the class, open up his Emacs window, and start coding from scratch. He usually had a task in mind, but, like his artsy counterpart, would be flexible about the details.
Unlike in linear, unrealistic step-by-step tutorials, you’d get to have a front seat to the authentic coding process. You’d get to watch somebody who was extremely good, but surprisingly imperfect. You’d see the typos and logic errors being made, discovered and fixed; you’d see how he would test bits and pieces of code separately, isolating any problematic behavior to its simplest incarnation. You could see the code evolving from one line to a fleshed-out program — not like a progress bar, slowly and linearly, but like an embryo, sprouting new organs and limbs and resorbing others.