A Site That Teaches You to Code Well Enough to Get a Job

Re:A Site That Teaches You to Code Well Enough to Get a Job by vegggdor on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @12:37PM (#8356232)

> and the people who get the most upset by that notion are often those who have taught 0 students

Does that apply to you?

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Re:A Site That Teaches You to Code Well Enough to Get a Job by roywiggins on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @01:57PM (#8356871)

To me? Yes and no. Yes I've taught precisely 0 students. No, I'm not at all upset with teaching PHP, I coded up my fair share of awful PHP web apps. My first favorite language was ActionScript which everyone loves to hate! But at the time, nothing beat PHP and ActionScript/Flash for simple, fun web development for beginners.

I think something like Flask might be a worthy successor. Heck it even includes a webserver, no need to fiddle with installing Apache to test stuff locally. And with services like Heroku the barrier to getting it online is almost as low as PHP.

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Re:A Site That Teaches You to Code Well Enough to Get a Job by vegggdor on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @04:13PM (#8357851)

I somehow missed your actual arguments for flask, so my impression of you over-enthusiastically praising flask was all wrong, sorry. Still, if Flask does everything for you, what are students left to learn? A lot, i guess :)

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Re:A Site That Teaches You to Code Well Enough to Get a Job by recursive on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @01:08PM (#8356454)

Read the rest of the sentence.

> but I've taught web dev to over 500+ students in the past 7+ years

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