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Comment Re:Real life is complicated (Score 1) 511

If they're in great pain and they down painkillers, it's not really addiction, because they're in pain, or PTSD. If they somehow manage to mentally and physically heal and no longer require painkillers but continue to do so, then it's a choice.

Holy crap.
People actually think this. I can only assume you're "trolling" (or what passes for it these days), given your username and the extreme level of misinformed rhetoric laid out in this post.

Comment Re:Java or Python (Score 1) 415

Try explaining the meaning of "public static void main(String[] args)" to somebody who's never written any code before...

I feel that not enough people appreciate this fact right here. Sure you can complain about Python and it's whitespace or weak-typing, but when you are trying to teach someone who's brand new to programming, getting a "Hello " is at least an hour of explanation of classes and methods and Java Stuff (tm).

Comment Re:another language shoved down your throat (Score 1) 415

This is the biggest positive I have for picking Python first, the interpreter. You can just open it up and start typing commands and writing statements and the people learning it start to "get" it a lot faster.

When you want to teach Java to someone who's new to programming you have to introduce Classes (which is a strange concept to a day 1 learner), methods (static? private? public? what does this all mean??), and a lot of other "need-to-knows" just in order to get a simple "insert name, hello " program out the door.

This takes all of 3 lines and half an hour to explain in Python, and people start to quickly grasp the basics behind programming without having to worry about the behind the scenes stuff.*

*which should still be taught, just don't need to dump it on them day 1 - what's the rush?

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