On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 6:00 AM, Ethan Gruber wrote:
> The language you choose is somewhat dependent on the data you're working
> with. I don't find that Ruby or PHP are particularly good at dealing with
> XML. They're passable for data manipulation and migration, but I wouldn't
> use them to re
As far as python goes, this has a quick sense of pacing, and has a lot of
interactive exercises, while building something pretty useful in the end.
https://www.udacity.com/ (CS101)
It goes into a little bit more theory then I think is useful for some
folks, but it's still a great resource.
On M
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On 2/18/13 12:53 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
> On 2/18/2013 2:04 PM, Jason Stirnaman wrote:
>> I've been thinking alot about how to introduce not only my kids,
On 2/18/13 12:53 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
On 2/18/2013 2:04 PM, Jason Stirnaman wrote:
I've been thinking alot about how to introduce not only my kids, but
some of our cataloging/technical staff to thinking "programmatically"
or "computationally"[1] or whatever you want to call it.
Do you
On 2/18/2013 2:04 PM, Jason Stirnaman wrote:
I've been thinking alot about how to introduce not only my kids, but
some of our cataloging/technical staff to thinking "programmatically"
or "computationally"[1] or whatever you want to call it.
Do you have an opinion of the google 'computational th
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I'll put a rec out for CodeSchool. They star
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Getting back to the original point so
If you're just learning to program, I would absolutely recommend an
interpreted language like Ruby, PHP, Python, Perl, JavaScript etc. over
something that is compiled like Java, C, or Go. These languages are almost
always slower, but the immediate feedback is invaluable for learning. I
find that
Getting back to the original point so noting some nice starting tools, I
find http://www.codecademy.com to be a decent starting spot for those of us
without much computer science background. I am not sure what professional
developers think of the site but I find it a helpful to tutorial to start
g
This is an interesting and frustrating conversation.
Most modern languages are capable of doing almost anything. They all
have strengths and weaknesses.
I have worked in many languages starting in Fortran, and, while I have
favorites, I like the fact that I can be productive and efficient by
conc
That's interesting that you should say that Joe. That's one of the major
goals of the Hydra Project (http://projecthydra.org/), which is almost
entirely in Ruby.
-Justin
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 8:00 AM, Ethan Gruber wrote:
> The language you choose is somewhat dependent on the data you're wor
The language you choose is somewhat dependent on the data you're working
with. I don't find that Ruby or PHP are particularly good at dealing with
XML. They're passable for data manipulation and migration, but I wouldn't
use them to render large collections of structured XML data, like EAD or
TEI
RSolr is also a great library for the Ruby programmer who wants to publish
or search for documents into a Solr index.
https://github.com/mwmitchell/rsolr
-Justin
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 7:52 AM, Jason Stirnaman wrote:
> This is a terribly distorted view of Ruby: "If you want to make web pages,
This is a terribly distorted view of Ruby: "If you want to make web pages,
learn Ruby", and you don't need to learn Rails to get the benefit of Ruby's
awesomeness. But, everyone will have their own opinions. There's no accounting
for taste.
For anyone interested in learning to program and hack
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