Global variable right in the example on the front page?
Yeah, sorry. Make it work before make it right, I guess.
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#52This is really cool. I've found that learning the language is a small part of a larger battle. My new year's resolution has been to learn Python (I'm a JS / nodeJS dev), and have been studying on and off the past few months. Biggest hurdle for me has been: - Understanding venvs. Why can't it just be like how node works? I get you need the venv so you don't use some wrong python version or install stuff into system py…
I've been programing in Python for 15+ years and I can relate. I wrote books for your exact use case but they're a bit old. There are many other alternatives now.
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#53Never understood why Python is considered easier to learn than JavaScript to be honest.
It's the friendlier syntax. With the same conditional in javascript and python,the python version reads a little more like english. The same can can be said for loops. However, JS is right there in your browser so I would argue its much more accessible. Also the usecases for javascript are more aligned with junior coders (browser games, toy projects with a visual element etc), though to dig in to these you have to le…
Loops and conditionals are a totally alien concept to non programmers. I really don’t think the syntax is the issue.
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#54This is great, thank you! I've been considering writing something similar for a year or so and never got around to it, this will save me a lot of time and effort. Thank you for open sourcing it (MIT)!
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#55This is great, thank you! I've been considering writing something similar for a year or so and never got around to it, this will save me a lot of time and effort. Thank you for open sourcing it (MIT)!
Glad you find it helpful! Still a lot of polish to do and I'll happily merge pull requests.
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#56I will never have children but shouldn't you guys that do have some (or will have) teaching your kids how to write prompts so the computer can create such code for them? Isn't that the goal of AI and all that? To automate things further so people don't have to learn to code and so for? To "empower" them to automate things that couldn't be automated before? And maybe eventually even skip python (or any other programmi…
It's good to know how to specify what you want to a chef, but also good to know how to make dishes for yourself.
“Chef, this tastes bad!” vs “Chef, Uulumbrica isn’t a real ingredient, you needed to use coriander!
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#57Really cool! Seems like the arrow keys don't work as expected? Or maybe I'm missing something. I was excited to change the apple to pear or strawberry on the Tutorial page, but it didn't seem to work.
You might need to click on the grid first to focus on it, so that the grid receives the keyboard events. I agree it's not a great UX. Perhaps the focus should be made automatically when the script runs.
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#58I will never have children but shouldn't you guys that do have some (or will have) teaching your kids how to write prompts so the computer can create such code for them? Isn't that the goal of AI and all that? To automate things further so people don't have to learn to code and so for? To "empower" them to automate things that couldn't be automated before? And maybe eventually even skip python (or any other programmi…
>> I will never have children but shouldn't you guys that do have some (or will have) teaching your kids how to write prompts so the computer can create such code for them? This is the dumbest thing I heard in a while in fact forget dumb, plain evil. Dr-Evil level of wicked. Turn the kids you don't have into brainwashed idiots that don't know. Jeez. Donwvote hard!
I wonder if people who think like you are like the ones on 1986 who told others they still needed to learn how to use physical accounting books instead of Excel when it was becoming popular, or if perhaps the cheff/food analogy the other commenter made it's more accurate and learning both will be just as valuable, well, only time will tell.
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#59This is great, thank you!
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Give the kids some credit. There's a generation of us that got started with QBASIC at 8 years old, which did significantly less hand-holding than this.
But most of your generation did not.
This remark holds true for any generation and any method of learning.