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Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read)

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Actually, Python is supposed to be simple in that it does not need all the 
constructs to be learned to do basic stuff. However I found so far most 
tutorials are written by people who are very good at it, and not enough time 
is spend making it seem cuddly as the Sinclair books did, a bit at a time. 
Also like many of the languages, syntax is very strict, so is indenting etc. 
This in my view is bad for a language as a tiny mistake can generate runtime 
errors that seem completely impossible to understand.
 It needs an editor that can spot things as you go. It may well have this 
now, but since I'm now blind it could be that its inaccessible.
 Brian

<bit-naughty@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:c080ac9c-ed0d-4d4d-a3a1-887ba660fe6b@googlegroups.com...
> On Monday, February 22, 2016 at 4:31:37 PM UTC+5:30, Brian Gaff wrote:
>> most of the developments have been
>> designed, in my opinion, deliberately,
>
> I'm curious - why do you say this? I can't say I've ever thought about it 
> at length, but surely - the more kids that grow up having had FUN with 
> computers, the more web developers and game developers etc. there will be, 
> right? Is there someone that doesn't want that?
>
>
> Out of curiosity, if I made a website *teaching* web dev to kids, making 
> it fun, the way Spectrum books did for me when *I* was young, d'you think 
> there would be a market for it? This NEEDS to be done, instead of all my 
> web dev books giving me the hellacious time they have..... (well, not ALL 
> the time maybe, but still, you get the idea..)
>
> Where are all the people who wrote those books NOW? What are they up to? 
> Any way I can get hold of some email addresses or something?
>
>
>>to be inpenetrable to normal human
>> beings with the possible exception of Python but even that has grown to 
>> such
>> an extent its still daunting to start.
>>
>
> All I know about Python is that I once went to a bookshop where they had 
> some books on it - 2 were O'Reilly books, one of them was bright pink in 
> colour, and *both of them were fatter than a dictionary*!!!!
> That was the end of my interest in THAT subject.....
>
> Yes, I hear what you're saying....

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The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-02-21 09:33 -0800
  Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) Calum <com.gmail@nospam.scottishwildcat> - 2016-02-21 20:57 +0000
    Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) "Brian Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2016-02-22 11:04 +0000
      Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) Calum <com.gmail@nospam.scottishwildcat> - 2016-02-22 12:00 +0000
    Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-02-26 07:38 -0800
      Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) Calum <com.gmail@nospam.scottishwildcat> - 2016-02-27 13:22 +0000
        Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-03-02 02:19 -0800
          Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) Calum <com.gmail@nospam.scottishwildcat> - 2016-03-02 13:58 +0000
            Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-03-06 22:55 -0800
              Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) Guesser <alistair@zxnet.co.uk> - 2016-03-07 10:25 +0000
                Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-03-07 07:03 -0800
                Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) Guesser <alistair@zxnet.co.uk> - 2016-03-07 15:33 +0000
                Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) Calum <com.gmail@nospam.scottishwildcat> - 2016-03-07 17:37 +0000
              Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) Calum <com.gmail@nospam.scottishwildcat> - 2016-03-07 18:41 +0000
                Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-03-13 08:55 -0700
                Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) Calum <com.gmail@nospam.scottishwildcat> - 2016-03-13 16:44 +0000
  Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) "Brian Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2016-02-22 11:01 +0000
    Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-02-26 08:34 -0800
      Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) "Brian Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2016-02-28 11:04 +0000
        Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) Calum <com.gmail@nospam.scottishwildcat> - 2016-02-28 11:34 +0000

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