On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 6:00 AM, Ethan Gruber ewg4x...@gmail.com 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
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
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
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
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
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
I've heard similar good things about Codecademy from a friend who recently
wanted to start learning programming along with his teenage son. It seems like
a good gateway drug :) I introduced my 11-year-old to the Javascript-based
animation tutorials on Khan Academy and he found them really fun.
I am going to second and third and fourth www.codeschool.com. I know codecademy
gets a lot of love, but I'm pretty sure that's only because people don't know
about Code School. I would turn to NetTuts courses for PHP, especially Laravel
4 (greatest PHP-thing ever), but that's *only because Code
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
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
I'm not advocating the Google CT lessons as the best way to learn Python.
Karen, I really like your hacker space idea. Anyone else know of an online
environment like that? Another option is maybe a Python IRC channel or a local
meetup discussion list. For example, we have a really good Ruby
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
12 matches
Mail list logo
