British bookseller hides reading list for developers in its website source code

Re:British bookseller hides reading list for developers in i... by mistro on Friday February 20, 2015 @05:00PM (#9083344)

Your second point is off the mark - I teach a load of kids (12-16 years old or so) who know all about pressing F12 and looking at source code, but who know next to nothing more about HTML, CSS, Python etc.

Whether or not they'd be interested in reading a book when you can just watch it on Youtube is another matter entirely!

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Re:British bookseller hides reading list for developers in i... by yaddayadda on Saturday February 21, 2015 @05:45PM (#9087325)

> 2. If someone is looking in the code, they're probably ready for books beyond "HTML & CSS".

Key word in my original statement - "probably". I didn't claim that everyone reading it was beyond needing a beginners book, just that a reader of the code was "probably" ready for books beyond "HTML & CSS".

As for books versus Youtube - yep, I'm an immigrant. In most cases, I personally still prefer books, online tutorials, and online forums to Youtube. But I'm not surprised to hear that isn't the case with kids. But then again, we're discussion a book-seller's site.

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Re:British bookseller hides reading list for developers in i... by linuxlizard on Friday February 20, 2015 @05:12PM (#9083408)

My 12-yo is learning HTML/JS by reading and modifying websites' code.

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Re:British bookseller hides reading list for developers in i... by jarin on Friday February 20, 2015 @05:18PM (#9083441)

That is how I learned when I was 12 too :)

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Re:British bookseller hides reading list for developers in i... by lstamour on Friday February 20, 2015 @06:02PM (#9083676)

Back then I didn't have developer tools though. That lowers the bar considerably to newcomers. :)

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Re:British bookseller hides reading list for developers in i... by err4nt on Saturday February 21, 2015 @01:32AM (#9084904)

I first got excited about web design when my computer teacher taught me how to change table cell background colors, in Netscape Composer. Now I do responsive CSS for a living!

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Re:British bookseller hides reading list for developers in i... by fysac on Friday February 20, 2015 @07:18PM (#9084002)

I remember the endless amusement I had using Firebug to create ridiculous headlines on yahoo.com.

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