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Ask HN: Suggested OS for teaching programming
9 points by chriszf 14y ago|7 comments
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by chriszf 14y ago
Sorry, it was a sleepy comment in the early hours of the morning. I don't mean to present it as contrary to Seguin's article. It's simply a side-conversation about the (perceived) rising usage of the phrase by unskilled developers.
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by chriszf 14y ago
Not that this is the case here (indeed, I <3 Karl Seguin), but I find this mantra being used by mediocre developers to cover their ignorance more and more these days. Yes, learning is more important than knowing, but that doesn't excuse
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by chriszf 15y ago
I don't agree with everything, but he does have a point: where are all the programs encouraging straight men to join the fashion industry?
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by chriszf 15y ago
I will second the recommendation on python for a beginner. It is my favorite language to teach to people coming from a non-technical background, as it has a very small number of syntax rules. I'm currently attempting to teach ruby to a crop
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by chriszf 15y ago
If you're in the SF East Bay, I conduct a 'learn to program python' class at the local hackerspace, Ace Monster Toys ( http://acemonstertoys.org/ ). It's mostly geared towards beginners, but in anticipation of pyweek, I'm switching gears an
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by chriszf 18y ago
I don't suppose you have specific recommendations as far as this goes? I'm lost in a sea of libraries and options. As I mentioned, I'm trying to work against the MapPoint webservice, but I've had no luck in creating even the most basic clie
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Ask YC: How big of a failure is SOAP?
4 points by chriszf 18y ago|30 comments
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by chriszf 18y ago
http://lifeshelf.net It's basically a web version of Delicious Library (not del.icio.us. Think delicious monster, mac fans). I didn't really launch it per se, so I can't say that it failed, but if I don't have people using/looking at it,
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by chriszf 18y ago
We use jira, svn, maven _and_ j-unit. Jira I think is pretty good. But that's only in comparison with what I was using before, which was clear..quest? Clearcase? One of those. Man, what a terrible program. In comparison, despite jira having
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by chriszf 18y ago
No offense taken, you make a fair point. However, the reason everything has been about productivity is because that is the nature of computers, to automate tasks that would be tedious otherwise. This fact hasn't changed, but it seems like n
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by chriszf 18y ago
Hey.. uhh.. Do you work on the same project as me, or is this just a common setup?
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Ask YC: When did we stop wanting useful software?
25 points by chriszf 18y ago|35 comments
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by chriszf 18y ago
Has anyone here ever been in a situation where they thought, "Wow, a unit test would have saved me" or "Man, thank god for our unit tests?" I don't think I've personally encountered that. Plenty of bugs at compile time or during regressions
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Ask YC: When should you let people start writing about you?
3 points by chriszf 18y ago|1 comments