Here's my two cents: We should not be encouraging people to learn to program so much as we should be encouraging people to learn how to construct an algorithm. That's the first thing you need to learn. Kind of like…
As a developer who has struggled with depression, I really dig this. I've got a lot of years doing backend work, and I'd be more than happy to help pro bono. I personally would not get too hung up on the stack you use.…
This really should be titled: "Programming is not computer science."
I found the apps to be puerile, offensive, and inappropriate. That said neither was sexist or misogynistic. It's not like they were called "How Dumb Was She?" or something. We've come around to the idea that anything…
Full disclosure I'm not a JavaScript programmer. I dink around with it. I can work with it. I understand it enough to maintain the code I need to at work, but I'm not a "JS Guy". At the heart of my programming heraldry…
You know if the kid really wanted some press for his app...he should have turned down Yahoo's and state that he values his company too much to allow them to be used as a PR stunt. ...and then the dump truck full of…
Here's my two cents: We should not be encouraging people to learn to program so much as we should be encouraging people to learn how to construct an algorithm. That's the first thing you need to learn. Kind of like…
As a developer who has struggled with depression, I really dig this. I've got a lot of years doing backend work, and I'd be more than happy to help pro bono. I personally would not get too hung up on the stack you use.…
This really should be titled: "Programming is not computer science."
I found the apps to be puerile, offensive, and inappropriate. That said neither was sexist or misogynistic. It's not like they were called "How Dumb Was She?" or something. We've come around to the idea that anything…
Full disclosure I'm not a JavaScript programmer. I dink around with it. I can work with it. I understand it enough to maintain the code I need to at work, but I'm not a "JS Guy". At the heart of my programming heraldry…
You know if the kid really wanted some press for his app...he should have turned down Yahoo's and state that he values his company too much to allow them to be used as a PR stunt. ...and then the dump truck full of…