Tag: JavaScript

  • The JavaScript Learning Landscape in 2018 | CSS-Tricks

    Raise your hand if this sounds like you: You’ve been in the tech industry for a number of years, you know HTML and CSS inside-and-out, and you make a good living. But, you have a little voice in the back of your head that keeps whispering, “It’s time for something new, for the next step…

  • Programming in a “foreign” language

    [Update] Added a paragraph about Dash API documentation browser app. When I say foreign language, I’m not talking Spanish, German, Chinese, etc. but a programming language that you don’t use on a day-to-day basis. My “native” programming language is Cobol (COmmon Business Oriented Language).  I’ve been programming in it my entire professional career of over…

  • Universities finally realize that Java is a bad introductory programming language

    What’s this “public static void” crap? Source: Universities finally realize that Java is a bad introductory programming language An interesting development. I do agree somewhat that using JavaScript as a first programming language since you can use it without a compiler/interpreter installed on your computer, just a web browser. And despite the close names, Java and…

  • Check out my Random Bible verse generator

    Please check out my random Bible verse generator.  Inspired by going through the “Make Your First App in an Hour” course at learntoprogram.tv I wrote this in one weekend. I am currently using the “Holy Bible” API on MashApe. I want to eventually add logic so that verses with the words of Christ are in…

  • Why can’t programmers program?

    Why can’t programmers program?. The logic for this is really very simple. I was able to do in both Swift and JavaScript, which I am learning, in hardly any time. Because of the variations in language structure, I couldn’t exactly use the “for(int i=0;” exactly, Here is my code in JavaScript: for (i = 0;…