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What Do You Visualize While Programming? - Dillon Shook

What Do You Visualize While Programming? - Dillon Shook.
Thinking about thinking when coding, and the differences in what we see in our minds eye

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joeb

joeb

This seems like a good thing to learn and try, more so for programmers who are visual learners.

alvinkatojr

alvinkatojr

Nice find. The best part about this article was the Richard Feynman video where he talks about how we visualize information differently from others, how this affects how we communicate and why we run into problems trying to explain it to others because they also see things differently.

The key takeaway being that if you can understand how you visualize, you can learn anything.

Donishak

Donishak

I think this is a great idea to try soemtimes…

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