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I sent this very link to an acquaintance who is looking to get started programming, to give him an idea of how much fun it is to do things interactively in a ti
by philsnow 12y ago
I sent this very link to an acquaintance who is looking to get started programming, to give him an idea of how much fun it is to do things interactively in a tight REPL-alike.
I think a lot of people who are just starting out get deterred when the only thing they end up with after a week of effort is some hard-to-see changes happening on the filesystem or in some file.
- jakejake 12y agoA lot of us who have been doing this for years sometimes spend a week working on something only to see a benchmark slightly improve or a unit test pass - but still get a thrill from it! But I must add that anything which gets new coders excited is a good thing!
- chton 12y agoThat's because you can conceptualize what happens through your experience and knowledge. For a newbie, a slight benchmark increase doesn't mean anything because they can't tell what the impact of it is, why it is important. Closing the feedback loop between typing and seeing a cool result is one of the best ways to get people excited about coding. If 3D or AR helps with that, it's definitely a good thing :)
- jakejake 12y agoI'm 100% with you - if it gets new people excited then I'm all for it!
- tomjen3 12y agoPython has a webbrowser module so that you can use it to remote control your webbrowser. It is much more fun to see results that way than mess around with print.