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[Natalie Freed]

I'd be *very* interested in a Javascript course.

Natalie

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 1:49 PM, stephani schielke <
stephani.schielke at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd be interested in some Python...I already know how to program, my
> problem
> is sitting down and focusing on one thing long enough to learn it. If
> you're
> teaching a course(even a basic, learn-to-program one) in Python, that gives
> me motivation AND focus.  Count me in.
>
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Akkana Peck <akkana at shallowsky.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Jacinta Richardson writes:
> > > A few people have contacted me off list and asked whether I'll be
> > covering how
> > > to program.  I haven't given this a lot of thought, but rather than
> just
> > > replying individually with the same thing I thought I'd summarise my
> > thoughts
> > > about that here.
> >
> > Are there a lot of people interested in a course in how to program?
> > How about if it was in another language: Python or Javascript?
> > If so, which of those two languages would you prefer?
> >
> > If there's a lot of interest, I could give a few intro lessons on
> > programming basics before Jacinta starts her Perl course in July,
> > but Perl isn't really my language. I've done a little in Perl, but
> > not enough to teach it (I'll be following Jacinta's course since
> > I'm sure I'll learn new and interesting stuff).
> >
> > For those not familiar with the tradeoffs of various languages:
> > Python has an especially clean syntax and is very easy to learn.
> > It's great for quick programs run from the command-line, but you
> > can write big graphical apps with it too.
> > Javascript isn't quite as clean, but it runs in the browser so you
> > can use it to run scripts inside web pages, and that makes it easy
> > to show off your JS hacks to your friends or the world.
> >
> >        ...Akkana
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