Carly Chaikin Quotes

'Programming' is a four-letter word.

I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.

I don't know how to code. I should know how to code.

Whether you draw diagrams that generate code or you type at a browser, you are coding.

I suppose I should learn Lisp, but it seems so foreign.

Programming is usually taught by examples.

Coding - everyone thinks it's a superpower. And so when you feel like, 'I've learned how to code,' and you say to your mom or the girl sitting next to you, 'I know how that app is built, I know the logic behind how that was created' - that's powerful.

As technologists, we all write code.

Somebody writing a subroutine is unbelievable boring.

I am a programmer.

All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school - my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.

As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.

Code is just a list of instructions. There are countries that are teaching it as part of the core curriculum. Having some experience in those early years is very important.

The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent.

I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.

Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.

I'm thinking of going to programming school. Learn how to sit down at any computer and learn to do anything on it. That's all I have left and have interest in.

You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It's logic-based creativity.

When you learn to code, it opens up for you to learn many other things.

Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.

With computer science, I had to go through that uncomfortable process of my brain establishing a hash table, if you will - the coders will get that - for this new information, because I didn't have one. So I had to establish a brand-new file system from scratch.

I don't program or code or anything like that.

I took Pascal, and I was terrible. And then, when I went to NYU, I minored in computer science. I just couldn't code. I just didn't have the patience for it.

Programming is a pretty tricky thing to start learning. You need to combine it with comedy to get a wider audience.

You can learn how to code today. You can build this same thing that you're looking at every day, that you're tweeting on, that you're snapping on, and I feel like that conversation needs to be had.