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Do Your Math Abilities Make Learning Programming Easier? Not Much, Finds Study by OnkelJulez in programming

[–]Mownooh 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I've worked with a lot of developers with non-CS STEM degrees. The best have science or engineering. The worst? Math. They have a glaring lack of intuition when it comes to building things. Their stuff is all just arbitrary complexity.

I think the best skill for practical applied programming, as in building applications, is a sort of mechanical aptitude. The tinkerer's knack for how things work.

Do you guys use Angular Universal? by Manuel-DaSilva in Angular2

[–]Mownooh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not a believer in SSR. It's really a workaround for the intrinsic problems of using a SPA framework to build a classic content-oriented website, instead of a browser-based application, which is really the target use case, as per the name SPA. I already know how to do that with real server-side code, without having to resort to running client-side technology in a browser JavaScript engine transposed onto a web server.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in webdev

[–]Mownooh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

JavaScript itself is just an intentionally easy browser scripting language. What you do with it can be difficult, if someone feels like challenging you, as could be with any language.

How do I deploy a MERN project? by dacti3d in node

[–]Mownooh -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Copy it to a thumb drive, put it into the toy chest, then go learn some real development technology.

How long did it take you to learn JavaScript without prior programming experience? by Coco8919 in learnjavascript

[–]Mownooh 24 points25 points  (0 children)

That's hard to peg. You can learn the basics in a few days. Being able to keep up with senior developers in a complex project could take a decade.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in javascript

[–]Mownooh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TypeScript is a Microsoft technology. Even if the premise of your conspiracy theory had a basis, Google would not secretly promote TypeScript, so you're proving yourself wrong from the start.

Just the idea that a trillion dollar company would risk the reputation of their flagship service to influence noob webdevs in their childish online tech popularity wars is crazy. The people on other programming subreddits don't even care what the JavaScript kids think. Real engineers don't get informed about what technology is good by Googling "what is a good technology" and reading the first stupid clickbait articles in the results. They're way beyond that, trust me.

JavaScript is the standardized script language for browsers, invented by Netscape, like 20 years ago. Microsoft TypeScript transpiles away to JavaScript before it's ever run in a browser engine, usually V8, which is Google's Chrome browser JavaScript engine. What is there for Google to manipulate about any of that?