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by gridspy 3529 days ago
So, do you mean that at no point you actually write code?

Best site for beginning coders : starts with a video then has a "video" of coding that you can pause and interact with. Very friendly and simple to start with.

It is a good language to start with too.

https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming/p...
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Onixelen 3529 days ago
I was implying that you write code and you practice/try things out as you're watching. Sorry should have explicitly mentioned that.
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wayn3 3529 days ago
You learn by doing. If thats implied, then the medium through which baseline knowledge is delivered doesn't matter much. Pick the one that you get along with. If that's videos over books, so be it.

Ideally, you would watch videos from an intro course at stanford or MIT. Those are known for uploading such lecture series.

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wayn3 3529 days ago
JS is NOT a good language to start with.

Its a fast way to get a job. Its an obstacle in understanding programming. Have to know what you want out of this.

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gridspy 3529 days ago
js as taught on kahn is c-like and visual. It's approachable and garbage collected.

Learning languages need to be simple and friendly, not practical. Not saying that they shouldn't understand the full stack eventually.

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wayn3 3529 days ago
A first course in programming needs to teach you the principles. It doesn't need to be practical or easy or simple or any other nonsense.

If you don't understand pointers, you won't ever amount to much. Better to at least be aware that there's something important that you don't get than to be lulled into this "js everythings a mess and its ok that way" nonsense.

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