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Back in the days of PHP, I could develop web apps without references for the most part, using a simple text editor. It's a pretty similar story with Python too
by mywittyname 6y ago
Back in the days of PHP, I could develop web apps without references for the most part, using a simple text editor. It's a pretty similar story with Python too, unless I'm using Pandas, I generally don't use reference material much.
Today with node/angular, I'm generally leaning on Google (well DDG) pretty heavily throughout the day. Web platforms seem substantially more complicated today than they used to be. Then again, maybe the mid-aughts was the golden age of programming.
- rzzzt 6y agoI read Python and PHP's offline .CHM files, and was quite happy with the level of information contained there.
- paxys 6y agoPHP in fact had one of the first large online dev & documentation communities. A huge chunk of the web was built with multiple tabs of php.net open looking up which string length function to use.