If you want to do serious commercial development, you’ll have to spend a considerable amount of money on a really good suite of tools to do so, that much hasn’t changed.
Lolwut?
Am I about to go to jail for failing to pay my emacs fee?
How to Start Learning Computer Programming
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Re: How to Start Learning Computer Programming
#12If you want to do serious commercial development, you’ll have to spend a considerable amount of money on a really good suite of tools to do so, that much hasn’t changed. Lolwut? Am I about to go to jail for failing to pay my emacs fee?
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I got a fishy feeling from reading that post.
It's like it's written to not mean much, but get money from ad impressions. I didn't like the post in general, nor the title.
I don't think he makes very good points, except the variable/conditional/etc thing.
Re: How to Start Learning Computer Programming
#13If you want to do serious commercial development, you’ll have to spend a considerable amount of money on a really good suite of tools to do so, that much hasn’t changed. Lolwut? Am I about to go to jail for failing to pay my emacs fee?
This is very Microsoft-orientated. Even the open source software he recommends is Windows-only (Dev-C++, Notepad++).
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#14This article sounds like something a non-programmer would write for a research project.
There's lots of little mistakes throughout, such as imprecise definitions for compiled/interpreted/VMs and calling DevC++ a compiler, but beginners wouldn't know the difference anyway.
The real problem is that there's just flat-out bad advice! Many of the links he posts are just the first search result you'll find on Google, yet are terrible resources. In particular, cplusplus.com, w3schools, DevC++, and cprogramming.com are things you'll hear experts warn about for being outdated, having misinformation, or just poor explanation.
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#15Surely there's something here for everyone: http://programming-motherfucker.com/become.html
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#16Find something cool you want to do with computer. Find a way to do it. At the end you have learned a great deal of IT skills and the universe is a better place :)
Re: How to Start Learning Computer Programming
#17If you want to do serious commercial development, you’ll have to spend a considerable amount of money on a really good suite of tools to do so, that much hasn’t changed. Lolwut? Am I about to go to jail for failing to pay my emacs fee?
This is very Microsoft-orientated. Even the open source software he recommends is Windows-only (Dev-C++, Notepad++).
... And obsolete. Bloodshed Dev-C++ hasn't seen one whit of activity in nearly 8 years (4 years at the time of the article's writing). I can't comprehend why people keep recommending it to anyone.
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#18If you are going to use W3Schools, you're gonna have a bad time. http://w3fools.com/
The author mentions W3Schools in a footnote and you feel you have to refer to W3Fools. Give him a break. FWIW I think the W3Schools PHP tutorial is one of the best out there. Straight to the point.
If it's one of the best, that doesn't say much about what's out there.
Giving students the wrong information (as w3schools frequently does) is worse than giving them no information at all. To say it's "one of the best" implies that the bar is set pretty damn low.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
The author mentions W3Schools in a footnote and you feel you have to refer to W3Fools. Give him a break. FWIW I think the W3Schools PHP tutorial is one of the best out there. Straight to the point.
If it's one of the best, that doesn't say much about what's out there. Giving students the wrong information (as w3schools frequently does) is worse than giving them no information at all. To say it's "one of the best" implies that the bar is set pretty damn low.
I just read through the list at W3Fools and the things they bring up are either already changed at W3Scools or something really minor they're nitpicking about. No information is not better than information with minor flaws.
I still believe it's a good resource which goes straight to the point. When I google something I want a straight-foward answer and not a complicated specification like the one at MDN or W3.org.
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#20If you are going to use W3Schools, you're gonna have a bad time. http://w3fools.com/
The author mentions W3Schools in a footnote and you feel you have to refer to W3Fools. Give him a break. FWIW I think the W3Schools PHP tutorial is one of the best out there. Straight to the point.
|I think the W3Schools PHP tutorial is one of the best out there.
Just go to W3fools http://w3fools.com/ and search for PHP, I'm sure you will be able to find few mistakes or bad programming practices.