Re:What is the coolest thing you can do in ten lines of code?
by statictype on Friday December 30, 2011 @09:11PM
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Also COM scripting on Windows (and presumably Applescript on the Mac).
Sure there's a lot of special keyword magic involved, but nothing will get people more excited about programming than seeing how they can easily automate their routine tasks to make their life easier - that's what programming is supposed to be about anyway.
Re:What is the coolest thing you can do in ten lines of code?
by rmgraham on Friday December 30, 2011 @09:40PM
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You could probably stuff Node into this category too, if your target is the type to be impressed with writing their own basic web server in 10 lines of code.
Sure there's a lot of special keyword magic involved, but nothing will get people more excited about programming than seeing how they can easily automate their routine tasks to make their life easier - that's what programming is supposed to be about anyway.