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Because it's artificially made hard by people who enjoy complexity for its own sake. The article is about implementing a shopping cart, as far as I can make out
by goatinaboat 6y ago
Because it's artificially made hard by people who enjoy complexity for its own sake. The article is about implementing a shopping cart, as far as I can make out. Well people used to write those kinds of websites, that perfectly well enabled users to browse products, fill a basket, place the order and make a payment using nothing more than notepad.exe.
Some software is legitimately hard to write, even some websites. But this isn't an example of that. The author has been sent on a wild goose chase.
- LifeIsBio 6y agoI'm curious where you got the idea that the site is a shopping cart? CodeStories is a site to help life scientists learn to program by giving them problems, then letting them submit scripts and then auto-graded their scripts for correctness.
- goatinaboat 6y agoCodeStories is a site to help life scientists learn to program by giving them problems, then letting them submit scripts and then auto-graded their scripts for correctness. Because it’s a pretty generic e-commerce application that could have been built on the web 25 years ago. It should not have been complicated to do.