[Bradford] Re-learning coding

John R. Hudson j.r.hudson at virginmedia.com
Sat Nov 16 13:58:10 UTC 2013


Yes, please.

There is a summary of Javascript at 
http://www.bradlug.co.uk/august-19th-2013-pi-pbx-turings-curse-and-html5-update/some_notes_on_javascript/
which I put up as part of a summary of HTML developments.

John
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On Sat, 2013-11-16 at 12:25 +0000, John McLear wrote:
> Want me to do a session on using NodeJS and client side Javascript (in the browser and possibly a native app) to create/store/parse JSON?  XML isn't really what people consume nowadays.
> 
> Lots of other Bradlugers could prolly run the same presentation(better than me), might be a good chance to have a collaborative presentation..
> 
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: bradford-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk [bradford-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] on behalf of David Spencer [baildon.research at googlemail.com]
> Sent: 16 November 2013 11:59
> Cc: Bradford Linux User Group
> Subject: Re: [Bradford] Re-learning coding
> 
> Yo Andy!  Yeah it'll be good to see you again :-)
> 
> I'm in the same boat as you.  Everything I've done since 198* has been
> shell scripting or equivalent (and can rant to order about what's
> wrong with bash).  I left uni with the 1980 version of object
> oriented, which was a great improvement on everything that followed in
> C++, Java etc (on the one hand) and the newer academic toy languages
> (on the other hand).
> 
> I'd say the obvious choices are Python and Go.  Go looks really good
> to me.  Javascript is suddenly very trendy.  If you're tempted towards
> PHP or C++ or the faux-portability of C#, go and lie down until the
> feeling passes.
> 
> Just my opinion
> -D.
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