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AppJet Offers Browser-Based Coding How-To, Hosting

Posted by kdawson on from the talk-about-rapid dept.

theodp writes "Know someone who wants to learn to program? Paul Graham advises programmer wannabes to check out The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Programming on the Web from AppJet, which aims to be 'the funnest and easiest way for a beginner to get started programming.' Setting the guide apart from other tutorials is the ability to edit and run any of the all-Javascript examples directly in your browser. Newcomers to programming and experienced developers alike can also publish their AppJet creations on the web. Sure beats GE BASIC on the General Electric Time-Sharing Service!"

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  1. Re:by "funnest" by jellomizer · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Computer programmers are the sort of people who come up with their own language.... and sometimes implement it. It is not about correct spelling and grammar just consistent spelling and grammar.

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  2. Re:How true is this? by jhouserizer · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Depends on what you mean by prevalent. Most commonly used? Most people with knowledge of it? Most lines of code written in it? Most platforms that support it? My guess is they mean most prevalent in the sense that it is very likely to be supported/usable on virtually any computer you sit in front of.

  3. Cool idea, but one peeve so far... by pla · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Another way to find images for your web app is using Google Image Search. When you search for an image and click on a result, you can also click on the "See full-size image" link at the top of the page. This will take you directly to the image in your browser, and you can copy the URL from the browser's location bar, and use that with AppJet's image command.

    So by the third page, they already have you stealing bandwidth by deep-linking images?

    Cool site, but I really hope they have a section on netiquette somewhere in there...

    1. Re:Cool idea, but one peeve so far... by pla · · Score: 3, Insightful

      D'oh! Okay, before you all smack me down, they do indeed mention that as unkosher. Somehow I completely missed that paragraph on my first read.

      Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa...

  4. Re:by "funnest" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Actually, the majority of them are the ones who have to abide by the syntax of an existing language.

  5. Heroku? by SanityInAnarchy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not going to look into this in too much depth yet, but it sounds quite a lot like Heroku -- only less beginner-oriented, and without trying to do server-side javascript.

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