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Nelson Chu Pavlosky

I seem to have adopted an intern at my dysfunctional web business.

The intern is in high school, knows basic HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and has a little experience using Ruby and other programming languages. However they have never used git, for example, and presumably lack experience with similar essential tools.

How would you help a beginner programmer get started, with a focus on technologies relevant to the web and web infrastructure?

I already recommended they play ohmygit.org/

7 May at 22:37 | Open on jawns.club
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Alistair K

@skyfaller My son – also in high school – has been enjoying Replit as a good platform for expanding his ability. He is at the level of mainly hacking existing code, though – only recently learnt that building websites by hacking Wordpress makes for fragility and immense maintenance costs. He had to learn that the hard way; I couldn't convince him up front.

Replit gives you real-time authoring, but publishing costs money.

7 May at 23:48 | Open on mastodon.nz
Just a Bill

@skyfaller It’s never too soon to introduce them to accessibility.

#A11y folks, do you have ideas or resources for high-school-age developers?

8 May at 2:24 | Open on universeodon.com
Nelson Chu Pavlosky

@billd Thank you for this reminder. I briefly mentioned semantic HTML today, but hopefully there will be time to go more in depth about accessibility.

8 May at 20:38 | Open on jawns.club
Aaron Kuhn
Eric LeVan

@skyfaller This is interesting, I need to teach my wife Git since universities are 2 decades behind the times.

10 May at 10:40 | Open on jawns.club
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