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[Atanas Radenski]

Quoting thomas knoll <tk at dydimustk.com>:
> take a peek at http://hacketyhack.net/

I peeked at hacketyhack.net, and this is what I saw:

===>>> Copy and paste from http://hacketyhack.net/ >>>

YOUR FIRST PROGRAM

One of Hackety Hack's sincere pledges is to make the most common code  
very easy and short. Downloading an MP3 should be one line of code. A  
blog should be very few.

For example, our sample blog:

blog = Table("MyBlog").recent(10)
Web.page {
   blog.each do |entry|
     title entry[:title]
     puts entry[:editbox]
   end
}

<<<===

It does not seem likely that a first program like the above one can be  
understood by a 13-year old beginner - or by any beginner for that  
matter. Kids can type it, of course, and run things, but do they get a  
clue? Coding is complex and learning how to do it is complex, no  
matter what. It can be less complex or more complex but it is always  
complex.

The hacketyhack.net site says: "Downloading an MP3 should be one line  
of code."

Hell, I do not use any code to download an MP3. I just click a link :-)

I guess, it is an interesting site, anyway. Thank you for pointing to  
it. But things cannot be this easy as they claim - like they are  
presented in 'eat all you want and loose weight' commercials.

Atanas
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Atanas Radenski
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Quoting thomas knoll <tk at dydimustk.com>:

> Psst...
>
> By the way, If python doesn't step it up in this area, all the kiddies
> are going to start learning Ruby on Rails *not that there's anything
> wrong with that*. But Why is kicking butt and taking names when it
> comes to making programing easy to learn. If you don't believe me, go
> take a peek at http://hacketyhack.net/
>
> gratia vobis et pax,
> TK
>
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