Submission + - I learned computer programming in my 50s – here's what I discovered 2
Mirnotoriety writes: I learned the language of computer programming in my 50s – here’s what I discovered
“A writer with no technical background recounts his incredible journey into the realm of coding and the invaluable lesson it taught him about the modern world”
“A writer with no technical background recounts his incredible journey into the realm of coding and the invaluable lesson it taught him about the modern world”
Scripting (Score:2)
HTML isn't coding. It's just writing where the fancy features of the word processor are expressed as tags embedded in the text.
Javascript is a "scripting language." You *can* build complex code in it, but you usually shouldn't. It's meant to do small, targeted tasks and that's what it's good at.
To be clear: "coders" who only do HTML and Javascript aren't coders, they're "web hacks." In the same sense of a "hack writer."
Python is scripting plus. It started as an alternative to Perl which had become unwieldy.
TL:DR; Another dumb article: writer discovers code (Score:1)
Writer has an epiphany that code controls a LOT of the modern world. Want to learn to code.
Starts with HTML and CSS. Is clueless HTML has been re-invented 3 times, each time worse then before. Clueless about the Mother of All Demos [youtube.com]. Someone tells them that HTML + CSS are NOT programming.
Uses JavaScript, hates it. Is clueless about braces.
Uses Python, loves it. Is clueless why it is a shit language.
Has fallen for bullshit identity politics when they make idiotic statements like: "Coding has a gender and rac