Re:Ask HN: Things New Developers Struggle with Most?
by solipsism on Saturday March 05, 2016 @01:15PM
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Building an accurate mental model of a typical web request is important and sometimes tricky. You mention both PHP and Java. I'm not sure how you're planning on teaching both of these, but using each to build a web app has different implications from the other regarding how/when/by what your code gets called. Adding JavaScript makes it even more complex.
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Re:Ask HN: Things New Developers Struggle with Most?
by jjensen90 on Saturday March 05, 2016 @01:34PM
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Thanks for your answer; that is a great point about the mental model of a web request. I mention PHP and Java because I have experience in web development in both languages, but my training materials would have completely separate tracts for each language.
Essentially I would like to target non-academically trained beginners who want practical/actionable knowledge in the respective language. So my basic outline would be: installing the language, choosing/installing an IDE, setting up a simple web server, language basics, OOP, database interaction, front-end rendering, etc. The reason for this Ask HN is that I would hate to waste extra time on something that 90% of students will grasp immediately, at the expense of a topic that might need extra attention.