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Why programming manuals aren't on audiobook

2 pointsby rafadcover 10 years ago

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coreyp_1over 10 years ago
This actually made me angry. The &quot;humor&quot; is based on pointing out the denseness of programming instruction in audio format, as if to say, &quot;This is so hard, who would be stupid enough to think that this is a good idea?!?&quot;<p>I have a blind friend who is a programmer who LISTENS to source code in order to program. We are both in the same Computer Science PhD program at a well known US University.<p>This video insinuates that programming is so complex that only &quot;normal&quot; people can do it, and that is offensive.<p>And, for the record, I do not use Swift, but I could understand exactly what was being described. This video is insulting.