olddevanon

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   by olddevanon 9y ago

   Maybe this is where regional differences come out as most students in the UK have had some programming lessons before starting uni (albeit they often haven't done any recreational programming). That was my observations at the time an
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   by olddevanon 9y ago

   I actually wasn't making an assumption, I was talking from my own experiences. Myself and my friends did learn about event-driven programming prior to university. We were taught both Visual Basic and Pascal and taught the difference be
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   by olddevanon 9y ago

   > According to author's webpage[1], he's a "student at the University of Waterloo, class of 2021". > So probably age 17 or 18. He's not passing himself off as a "professional". Fair enough, thoug
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   by olddevanon 9y ago

   It's because the challenge he set himself isn't hard and he didn't do a particularly good job of it either (other comments have covered that so I wont reiterate it) yet he is soapboxing his experiences as if the topic isn&#x2