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Rule #4: Comment As You Go!

05 Monday Oct 2015

Posted by Wyrd Smythe in CS101

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computer code, computer programmers, computer programming, programming language, real programmers, software development

There is a common tendency, as we crank out code, to think that we’ll come back later and write some really good comments — comments that future reviewers will view with admiration for their clarity, completeness, and humor. But if we’re honest we have to admit: Later never comes. We never go back and write those great comments. Often we don’t write any comments at all other than some placeholder we might dash off at the time.

Which is why Rule #4: Comment As You Go!

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HTML is not a programming language!

22 Monday Dec 2014

Posted by Wyrd Smythe in CS101

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computer code, computer language, computer languages, CSS, data, data type, HTML, Java, JavaScript, programming language, variables

A webpage is a text document written in HTML. This document may also contain CSS and/or JavaScript, but it’s basically an HTML text document. You could write one — including the CSS and JavaScript — using just a pencil and paper.

Despite not needing a computer to write, all three are computer languages — they are languages used by, understood by, computers (and trained humans). However only one of those (JavaScript) is a programming language.

This is a brief explanation of which is which and why.

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