How To Learn To Code In 2013
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How To Learn To Code In 2013
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#2First of all, HTML and CSS is not coding, and second it won't result in a 'serviceable website' as sites need to be dynamic these days, and you won't get paid for a static website anyway. This is a bad post and the author should feel bad.
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#3>> The reason it’s so hard for adults to learn new things is that there is no authority figure punishing them if they fail.
I think it's way more than that. Once you're out of school, there is no one to set goals for you. Even assuming you do have goals, there are no structured classes or textbooks to get you to those goals with your eyes closed. You are essentially both the teacher and the pupil and you must figure out your own curriculum in addition to doing the learning.
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#4First of all, HTML and CSS is not coding, and second it won't result in a 'serviceable website' as sites need to be dynamic these days, and you won't get paid for a static website anyway. This is a bad post and the author should feel bad.
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#5First of all, HTML and CSS is not coding, and second it won't result in a 'serviceable website' as sites need to be dynamic these days, and you won't get paid for a static website anyway. This is a bad post and the author should feel bad.
What? Did you read the whole article? An excerpt: "all roads lead to HTML and CSS... Once you understand that, then you can move on to Javascript, Ruby, Python, or whatever else you want."
This sounds logical and correct to me.
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#6I dislike how people say "Learn to code" and that automatically implies that it's HTML, CSS and JS: There is a whole world out of that.
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#7First of all, HTML and CSS is not coding, and second it won't result in a 'serviceable website' as sites need to be dynamic these days, and you won't get paid for a static website anyway. This is a bad post and the author should feel bad.
I kind of feel bad that the switch from "learn to code" to "why schools work" was so jarring. I definitely need to do a better job making it a bit more skim-able. But I definitely don't feel bad about advising people to start learning to code by learning HTML and CSS if their goal is to eventually learn to build web-apps.
It certainly is coding in the most literal sense of writing code to be interpreted by a computer, although it's not a programming language. You are correct about that. Nevertheless, it's a great starting place for beginners.
You definitely can get paid for building static websites. Somehow I did.
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#8I dislike how people say "Learn to code" and that automatically implies that it's HTML, CSS and JS: There is a whole world out of that.
I agree - I'm just saying it's the best starting point, not that it encapsulates all "coding".
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#9First of all, HTML and CSS is not coding, and second it won't result in a 'serviceable website' as sites need to be dynamic these days, and you won't get paid for a static website anyway. This is a bad post and the author should feel bad.
Can you write a web app without knowing HTML and CSS? And how about reading the next sentence?
>Once you understand that, then you can move on to Javascript, Ruby, Python, or whatever else you want.
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#10>> The reason it’s so hard for adults to learn new things is that there is no authority figure punishing them if they fail. I think it's way more than that. Once you're out of school, there is no one to set goals for you. Even assuming you do have goals, there are no structured classes or textbooks to get you to those goals with your eyes closed. You are essentially both the teacher and the pupil and you must figure…
Great point! I totally agree