I've put the live coding practice paper online in case anyone wanted to
read it:
http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/users/nc81/research/livecodingpractice.pdf
I'll present it at NIME in a few months, and if all goes well, do a live
coding versus live circuit building performance/duel against the other
N.Collins ; )
best,
N
prompted by Andrew's comment:
> I'm with Dave on the whole programming is easy thing - well at least
> it's no harder than anything else. Is programming really any more or
> less difficult than writing, singing, surfing, playing the piano etc..
> There seems to be a general rule of thumb that to be good at anything
> takes about ten years. So is it harder to learn to play a violin or a
> trumpet, a piano or a saxophone, to learn a natural written language or
> a formal written language? My experience is that achieving a level of
> proficiency in any of these is equally as challenging.
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