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"learned" was DEFINITELY an overstatement. I knew they existed is more accurate.
by mattdeboard 15y ago
"learned" was DEFINITELY an overstatement. I knew they existed is more accurate.
- troels 15y agoI'd argue that it still predisposes you very strongly. If nothing else, just in the abstract sense that you are familiar with the computer and don't see it as some scary or magical thing.
- mattdeboard 15y agoNo argument there.
- shortlived 15y agoMy college roommate ran several BBSes but ended up being pretty dumb with computers in college. It always made me scratch my head.
- ricardobeat 15y agoI "learned" Clipper and QBasic when I was 10. I can't write a single line in either today, but I'm 100% sure that experience made it a lot easier for me to become a developer. It's like riding a bike. Knowing what a for loop is already puts you miles ahead of the pack. It implies knowledge of variables, counters, operators, etc. We take many concepts for granted that are not that obvious to most.
- eurohacker 15y agodont you think php would have been easier to learn than django or ruby for getting a site working ?
- nkassis 15y agoAs I understand from the article, he didn't want to just get a site working but to learn how to program and picked, in my opinion, a good language to get started in. Learning django was, I assume from reading the article, a way to build fun projects with the knowledge of python he had acquired. Learn a language then how to make web pages with it is a better way to go in my view. I
- eurohacker 15y agothey used to say that php is the easiest language to learn for the beginners and get a site working, may be the times have changed and thats not true any more ..