Raspberry Pi's Eben Upton: "Programming Will Make You a Better Doctor"

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 6, 2013 @01:22PM from the learning-the-bits dept.

cylonlover writes "After a handful of days of furtive suggestion, spring made its presence felt in London today, where the second Technology Frontiers conference got underway. The Economist-organized event sees leading technologists and cultural figures take to the podium in front of some 250 ideas-thirsty business persons. Among them was Raspberry Pi Foundation founder Eben Upton, who extolled the benefits of learning to program for all professions. He went into some detail as to the inception of the Raspberry Pi and the need for more computer programmers."

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Re:And in other news... by weilawei · 2013-03-06 13:59 · Score: 5, Insightful

This. I haven't read TFA, but I'll venture a guess that's what Eben was getting at. Critical thinking is useful in virtually all fields of human endeavour. Programming just happens to be a form of applied problem solving that isn't inherently domain specific.