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Re: Yeah most of my time is spent practiving on Code Academy projects and by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/20/2016, 2:55pm PDT
nope wrote:

coming up with ways to use lists of methods I find in the w3schools references.


I feel like there's a fortune to be made for the first person who can write a decent textbook on this stuff. Engineers are freaking terrible at writing instructional material. Modern Javascript is the class' official textbook and it's written with awful circular explanations. I swear to god it uses definitions like "A constructor function is a function that uses a constructor." I've lost count of the number of times I've been stuck for hours on a concept in the book that I was able to get in 30 seconds of someone in person explaining it.

Fuck programming. Engineer ghostwriting is where the money is.


My understanding is that Mark Pilgrim wrote some really great guides under the "Dive Into" series. Here's one about Python.

At the moment, Mark Pilgrim would really appreciate it if the Internet forgot all about him. So I am not trying to get on his bad side, but he is extremely talented. I don't believe he had written anything for JavaScript.

The book that taught me to program was this one, the Inform Designer's Manual. Now, I had taken many computer programming classes before I found the IDM. I wasn't introduced to syntax or loops or whatnot with it. When I say it taught me to program, I mean that it explained concept to me in a way that I could understand and care about. I wanted to write classes so I could implement the classes that the book talked about. I wanted to create objects so that I could fill rooms with them. It also went a long way towards giving me an end goal.


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