things are gonna be different this time, baby
I've been a pretty lame blogger this week. That's largely because I've been a pretty lame human being — I've had some sort of nasty whiplash-ish condition as a result of my bike accident, and only yesterday arrived at a painkiller dosing schedule that made me less than constantly cranky. I'd like to issue a personal shout-out to the people who make mobic, by the way. A doctor gave me some samples for a sore back a while ago. They didn't do anything for my back, but I stumbled across the leftovers last night and MAN do they fix my neck. Thanks, evil pharmaceutical industry!
But I've got plans, internet. Plans that involve you. What would you say to a programming tutorial aimed at the non-programmer? You'd be pretty goddamn excited about it, I bet. I'll be trying to keep things simple and short, with an emphasis on doing cool internet-y things quickly. Like stuffing the ballot box of online polls. Or having your computer text-message you when concert tickets go on sale. I'm still working out the outline in my head, but I think I can get everyone equipped to work some useful HTTP/regex mojo in just 4 or 5 lessons. That'd be worth knowing, right? Right.
But tonight, I'm off to Chicago. So for now I'll just direct you to the anecdote at the end of this post from my sister.
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I would be very much down with (interested in) a programming tutorial.
sigh...if only you can do my job for me
Sounds like a good idea, it'll be nice to do something more interesting than the stuff we did in my high school programming class. Though a lot of that might have been the terrible teacher.
What language? Is your sister really a member of a once-famous band, or is she just prone to misplaced modifiers?
Not perl, I hope/assume.
She's not in a famous band. Her coworker was, though.
As for the language: I'm planning on Python, so that I can learn something during the process, too. I'm sort of hoping you'll provide your usual merciless corrections.
i'm in.
Python is a good language[1], but I would shrink before correcting someone gainfully employed in the tender art of programming.
[1] by which I mean, one of the only I know.
No, you should really feel free. In keeping with my general theme, my programming knowledge is a mile wide, inch deep -- I know lots of programming languages, but only one or two that I would consider myself very good at. You'd definitely be able to help, I think.
Also, we won't be getting into any highfalutin' concepts like object oriented programming. This is going to be procedural, quick & dirty.
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