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Re:John Resig: JavaScript as a First Language by hassing on Thursday December 22, 2011 @04:13AM (#3380949)
Again. These are classes for _beginners_. I'm not suggesting that you should never learn these things. They should also learn functional programming, estimating how algorithms perform, concurrent programming, binary trees, and a few hundred other things. But Programming is not something you master overnight.

You need to understand that 2+2=4 before you can understand that 2+i^2=1.

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Re:John Resig: JavaScript as a First Language by BerislavLopac on Thursday December 22, 2011 @07:54AM (#3381367)
You are correct, but in that case it's not the question of what is easier, but what is necessary. "Easier" implies that there is a choice between comparable options, not that one is the prerequisite for the other.
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