@aral Oi! Less of that!
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@martinbean Rather valid point about PHP being a bad first language to learn programming with, Martin :) Disagree? -
@aral …It’s the principles: control structures, OOP, design patterns etc. If you learn them, then you can apply them to any language… -
@martinbean Agree; and yet some languages make better teaching languages than others. -
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@martinbean Today? Probably JS with some sort of visual canvas-based environment for immediately/visually seeing results of your actions. -
@aral I think the problem with PHP is, there are *so* many bad references and tutorials and whatnot out there. -
@martinbean Yep. Although that’s an issue with JS & web technologies in general. - 2 more replies
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@stuherbert@mheap@ebii Wow, please don’t do that unless you want to scare them away & give them entirely the wrong focus… -
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@stuherbert@mheap@ebii Yes, and that’s why we had several decades of hardware & software that were socially inept & unusable. - 2 more replies
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@stuherbert@ebii Nope; was a humorous comment highlighting that I don’t think teaching a newcomer PHP today is doing them a service. -
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@stuherbert@ebii Awesome statistical fact if true. May qualify as unfunniest tweet of all time :) - 1 more reply
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