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A beginner's cheat sheet for web development

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Re: A beginner's cheat sheet for web development

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Post by donniezazen »

Sometime ago I finished Codecademy's Web Fundamentals. I learned enough to understand what's going behind the scene but not enough to start hacking on my own. Since then I have started learning Python, also on Codecademy. There's Java for Android. And I would also like to learn C++/QML to hack my Arch Linux/KDE box.

Is it common for programmers to be proficient(reasonably well) and also be able to work on multiple projects requiring multiple languages at the same time? Or do most folks learn many things but tend to work with one language on one project.

Re: A beginner's cheat sheet for web development

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Post by dylandev »

Toenex wrote: post #179
crucialfelix wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

its broken on desktop Chrome as well. but I'm not sure why it go so many upvotes if nobody can view it. obviously some people can. Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier content.js:627 ReferenceError: CONTENT is not defined at new masterCtrl ( http://www.bentobox.io/javascripts/main.js:85:17 ) at d ( https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.0.8/angula... ) at Object.instantiate ( https://ajax.googleapis…

Yep 'tis broken. I'm guessing site robustness isn't part of the cheat sheet.

No matter how many times 'tis deleted or hidden, syntax error does not equate to inadequate robustness. Syntax errors have nothing to do with unexpected variations in experience, and everything to do with coding errors.

Re: A beginner's cheat sheet for web development

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Post by colemanfoley »

Cool. Thanks for putting this out there. I like it overall, but stepping through the beginner's sequence by highlighting different squares doesn't work great. Separate from the exhaustive glossary view, you could have "track" views where you could guide beginners through different paths, like an all JavaScript path that takes users from front-end stuff to Node to Heroku or whatever. Like Codecademy's tracks. Beginners love that stuff.

Re: A beginner's cheat sheet for web development

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Post by gremlinsinc »

dylandev wrote: post #176
gremlinsinc wrote: post #163

hey Just pushed some laravel links to This project. . I'm actually wanting to start a dev boot camp her in Dayton that uses online learning resources to teach the fundamentals.. i.e why reinvent the wheel... with pair coding and real idea pitch sessions and learning while working on real startups that we may also help get some traction. ie Dev boot camp meets coworking space meets incubator/accelerator. this will be…

Can I ask for an argument in support of Laravel being the only PHP framework on here? I think it's very "cool" (especially the Silex-esque routing), but there's not a whole lot of Laravel jobs out there.

I think that would make some mad in the php community.. though I'd love to see the whole lot of phpers get behind one framework like Ruby on rails or at least a couple like symfony(since laravel is built on components from symfony makes it important for the future of laravel), laravel, and possibly Zend...There should also be a cleansing old php versions and frameworks and spaghetti code since learning laravel I've become a much better coder and just love coding.. before it was a major headache that I put up with.

Re: A beginner's cheat sheet for web development

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Post by AsymetricCom »

dragonwriter wrote: post #152
AsymetricCom wrote: post #142

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> ECMAScript isn't a different language than Javascript That's not true, Javascript is what is implemented in various browsers under the standards those developers choose to implement. If ECMAScript was the same thing, then why would Mozilla bother licensing Javascript from Oracle? Considering all these tools are just development platforms for THE WEB? Shouldn't you be learning how the Web works so you know what you'…

> If ECMAScript was the same thing, then why would Mozilla bother licensing Javascript from Oracle? Trademarks are basically labels; what Mozilla licensed from Oracle (actually, as I recall the history, what Netscape licensed from Sun and transferred to Mozilla) is the right to use the trademark "JavaScript". It has nothing to do with the actual language, just the label.

That's just more fuel for my argument. The fact is that the trademark is where the value is, there is no value in the Javascript language. Every other day there's another Javascript vulnerability because that is how it was designed.

http://thehackernews.com/2013/09/internet-explorer-zero-day-...

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