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This is a terribly distorted view of Ruby: If you want to make web pages,
learn Ruby, and you don't need to learn Rails to get the benefit of Ruby's
awesomeness. But, everyone will have their own opinions. There's no accounting
for taste.
For anyone interested in learning to program and hack
The language you choose is somewhat dependent on the data you're working
with. I don't find that Ruby or PHP are particularly good at dealing with
XML. They're passable for data manipulation and migration, but I wouldn't
use them to render large collections of structured XML data, like EAD or
TEI
This is an interesting and frustrating conversation.
Most modern languages are capable of doing almost anything. They all
have strengths and weaknesses.
I have worked in many languages starting in Fortran, and, while I have
favorites, I like the fact that I can be productive and efficient by
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I suggested PHP primarily because I find it easy to read and understand and
that's it's very commonly used. Both Drupal and Wordpress are written in PHP
and if we're talking about building web pages there are a lot of sites that use
one of those as a CMS.
I've looked at both good and bad
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Getting back to the original point so noting some nice starting tools, I
find http://www.codecademy.com to be a decent starting spot for those of us
without much computer science background. I am not sure what professional
developers think of the site but I find it a helpful to tutorial to start
If you're just learning to program, I would absolutely recommend an
interpreted language like Ruby, PHP, Python, Perl, JavaScript etc. over
something that is compiled like Java, C, or Go. These languages are almost
always slower, but the immediate feedback is invaluable for learning. I
find
On Feb 18, 2013, at 11:17 AM, John Fereira wrote:
I suggested PHP primarily because I find it easy to read and understand and
that's it's very commonly used. Both Drupal and Wordpress are written in PHP
and if we're talking about building web pages there are a lot of sites that
use one of
There is *no* ideal first language. PHP is fine. Perl is fine. All of them are
terrible in their own ways. ;-) Any of them will give you an idea of how
programming logic works, if you want to stop there. If you don't, you mustn't
stick with just one language. They all have their problems, and
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On Feb 18, 2013, at 11:17 AM, John Fereira wrote:
I
Not to be too pragmatic about it, but it is worth noting which languages are
used in the wilds beyond the confines of our libraries.
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
I know everyone has their own style, but I would push newbies towards
object-oriented languages,
First, I have not been programming nearly as long as any of you - just shy
of 20 years now.
I learned to program in C++ first. Then Java. Then Assembly. I use none
of them now, but I still implement some habits and principles I learned
from those in the languages I use now. It probably isn't
To be pedantic, Ruby and JavaScript are more Object Oriented than Java
because they don't have primitives and (in Ruby's case) because classes are
themselves objects. Unlike Java, both Python and Ruby can properly
override of static methods on sub-classes. The Java language made many
compromises
Mark, your blog post gives me pointers and directions that will take
weeks to follow, but I'm glad to have a starting point. Thanks. Your
references to hypertext and creation with hypertext remind me of David
Lankes' library as conversation [1]. I like the ongoing, always
moving, always
I've heard similar good things about Codecademy from a friend who recently
wanted to start learning programming along with his teenage son. It seems like
a good gateway drug :) I introduced my 11-year-old to the Javascript-based
animation tutorials on Khan Academy and he found them really fun.
Good advice. Sometimes you have to look for opportunities to learn new skills.
Awhile back I was asked by a colleague to write a program to process some
research data (it was actually related to something I've worked on) and since
it was going to be a one off program I decided to use a noSQL
I am going to second and third and fourth www.codeschool.com. I know codecademy
gets a lot of love, but I'm pretty sure that's only because people don't know
about Code School. I would turn to NetTuts courses for PHP, especially Laravel
4 (greatest PHP-thing ever), but that's *only because Code
On 2/18/2013 2:04 PM, Jason Stirnaman wrote:
I've been thinking alot about how to introduce not only my kids, but
some of our cataloging/technical staff to thinking programmatically
or computationally[1] or whatever you want to call it.
Do you have an opinion of the google 'computational
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On 2/18/13 12:53 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
On 2/18/2013 2:04 PM, Jason Stirnaman wrote:
I've been thinking alot about how to introduce not only my kids, but
some of our cataloging/technical staff to thinking programmatically
or computationally[1] or whatever you want to call it.
Do you
I'm not advocating the Google CT lessons as the best way to learn Python.
Karen, I really like your hacker space idea. Anyone else know of an online
environment like that? Another option is maybe a Python IRC channel or a local
meetup discussion list. For example, we have a really good Ruby
As far as python goes, this has a quick sense of pacing, and has a lot of
interactive exercises, while building something pretty useful in the end.
https://www.udacity.com/ (CS101)
It goes into a little bit more theory then I think is useful for some
folks, but it's still a great resource.
On
Mark,
Thank you so much for this. Both your talk, and this essay, are
amazing. I feel like there's 4-6 months worth of material to explore
contemplate in your post, and marvel at how clearly you've been able
to articulate the last 4-6 months of your own thinking.
I was tempted to open my
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