From Slashdot post:
Olga Khazan writes in The Atlantic that learning to program involves a
lot of Googling, logic, and trial-and-error—but almost nothing beyond
fourth-grade arithmetic. Victoria Fine explains how she taught herself
how to code despite hating math. Her secret? Lots and lots of
Goog
on Fri Sep 4
Mark Wieder writes:
> Ha! Gotta love slashdot comments...
> 'This is why so much poor software exists in the world.
> I can only imagine what nightmare code is being generated
> by such efforts. Yes, anyone can code, just as anyone
> can build a house. Whether or not the house
> colla
d 2 then answer "Greater" else anwer "Less"
The sky is the limit, except for the commitment and labor involved in doing it.
Craig Newman
-Original Message-
From: Alejandro Tejada
To: use-livecode
Sent: Thu, Sep 3, 2015 3:03 pm
Subject: No Math Skills? No Problem.
Alejandro Tejada writes:
> How far could a person learn this platform, LiveCode, just using these
> skills: Googling, logic and trial-and-error?
Ha! Gotta love slashdot comments...
'This is why so much poor software exists in the world. I can only imagine what
nightmare code is being generated
On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 6:03 AM, Mark Wieder wrote:
>
> 'This is why so much poor software exists in the world Garbage in ->
> Garbage out, applies to the
> code as well as the data.'
>
Whilst there is no denying that, I can only think of 2, maybe 3 stacks
recently that required more than 4h
