What is the html code?

[Autumnlicious]

I'd prefer said hypothetical admin not to be brain damaged by PHP first.

http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php...ad-design/

But nuff said, the tokens in between square brackets are not PHP.

They are BBCode, a DSL in lieu of HTML that represents a subset of HTML.

[Autumnlicious]

(Incidentally, I was a language and compiler designer in a former life, so your skills mean little to me.)

In the first 6 months of my current job I learned enough about Javascript to parse it. Bleh

[wolf39us]

I'd prefer said hypothetical admin not to be brain damaged by PHP first.

http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php...ad-design/

But nuff said, the tokens in between square brackets are not PHP.

They are BBCode, a DSL in lieu of HTML that represents a subset of HTML.

Ah, indeed you are correct. The BBCode is parsed and converted to an HTML output. I guess I didn't think about that when I said it was "php" lol.

Oh well... I'll remember for next time

edit: interesting article. I'd really love to find some more stuff to learn. But I'm not sure what language to dip into (especially one most useful in the workplace)

[Autumnlicious]

I've taught a few people to program.

It depends on many things, but I'd suggest:

1) Python first. It's as closest to the pseudocode one writes and encourages good style.

Take this course: https://www.edx.org/course/mitx/mitx-6-0...puter-1122

It covers the essentials (data structures, algorithms)

From there we can break into these categories:

- backend (I make/serve/process data for remote clients)

- front end (I present the UI and user experience)

- embedded (I live in a world where I am the hardware)

- high performance (I will learn the dark arts to get all I can)

- research (I care more about the data itself)


Once you got Python down, you'll be able to learn the following in order of difficulty:

- Ruby/Javascript/ActionScript
- Java
- C
- D
- C++
- Scala
- Haskell

I'm tempted to rank C lower. God knows how my C code looks like overly cautious Python, but it is remarkably easy to slide from Python to C if you already know what defines the hardware world.

You Have to know Java if you want to work in Enterprise.

You have to know C++ to do AAA game development. Though that is changing and may migrate to D if C++11 isn't good enough.

I'm a polyglot of programming languages, so they learn the same to me.

But please, start with a language devoted to cleanliness and readability.

It stops a lot of bad habits before they start.

And it encourages you to think first about the logic than the line noise... er syntax.

Oh, and fuck Ruby and Rails. I've run into so many imposters that I am now convinced the community breeds it. #pairwithme really means " I have no idea how to program so help me think".

[Angrboda]

* Angrboda giggles.


An echo of the cacophonous roar of laughter haunts the dark places and obtuse angles of the corridor.

[LastPoet]

There is this idea I have been cooking (shocker!).

Some people on the forum are quite versed on programming, why can't we use that to work to better the forum? If Tiberius has some space on the server it would be possible to setup a source control server and people willing to join could help around. Of course the Admins would still supervise and issue tasks. How about that?

[pocaracas]

Open source the forum!
Power to the people!!!
If it's not open source, then the NSA has a backdoor into it!

[wolf39us]

Sounds like a potential security hazard to me

[pocaracas]

Sounds like a potential security hazard to me

That's why Linux is the least secure OS out there.... -.-'

[LastPoet]

Sounds like a potential security hazard to me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzs-OvfG8tE