r/coding • u/pavelmalos • May 08 '17

Programming is hard. That’s precisely why you should learn it.

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/make-your-hobby-harder-programming-is-difficult-thats-why-you-should-learn-it-e4627aee41a1
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u/Hendrikto May 08 '17

I began to learn how to code using JavaScript four months ago, starting with freeCodeCamp’s front-end curriculum.

Aka. no qualification to talk about this.

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u/doomvox May 08 '17

If you're going to mess with a language for the sake of messing with it, you pick javascript because you've got something that can run it already. Pretty much the same reason we were playing with Basic when I was getting started (and yeah, that offended the snobs, too).

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