Or at least not thinking like a good coder. This is something you can only teach yourself.
If they want to learn basic computer programming hand these students a copy of a BASIC manual from the early 1980s. I taught myself BASIC and 6502 assembly language.
Too bad this story didn't come in a timely fashion, or i might have had time to make plans to participate.
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Because apparently NPM doesn't really fall into the "blessed trinity" and is therefor fucked and can't keep paying for long term development?
I am perpetually baffled by the supposed "need" to constantly develop an already stable single-purpose utility such as npm. What features are required that are not already part of npm? Aside from any bug fixes that is, of course. A commercial entity could add value to the NPM repository by vetting and certifying NodeJS modules/packages/libraries hosted in the repository.
Prof: So the American government went to IBM to come up with a data encryption standard and they came up with ... Student: EBCDIC!"
