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Re: [LUG] Fwd: Learning to code

 

 On 17/04/2012 15:05, tom wrote:
On 17/04/12 12:33, Julian Hall wrote:
 More of the same.. good news for the future? :)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17726085


What is it with these whingers? JavaScript is evil? http://bellard.org/jslinux/
or even http://www.visual6502.org/JSSim/
now write those in pascal/ruby/python/perl.....
Tom te tom te tom

I think it's a case of being thrown in the deep end. I started programming in 1986 doing my O Levels with BBC Basic, dabbled a bit with STOS on the Atari ST, but then nothing really until 2005 when I belatedly took a degree in Software Development. One element of the Multimedia module was Javascript - IIRC six weeks - and I wasn't too fond of Javascript (possibly because I'd found C++ a pain as well[1]). If they managed to get from zero to a functional website with no coding experience at all inside one day, that's not a bad achievement.

Julian

[1] One too many times finding the actual code error nowhere near where the debugger said it had found an error did nothing to endear it to me.

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