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HTML, CSS and JavaScript are not hard. What's hard is being able to teach any single person them – that requires many sorts of people skills. The irony is that
by exprA 10y ago
HTML, CSS and JavaScript are not hard.
What's hard is being able to teach any single person them – that requires many sorts of people skills. The irony is that for people with the right mindset, learning the 3 of them, or programming in general is one of the easiest thing they could do.
- jordanlev 10y agoI disagree... they are hard. The fact that you think they are easy speaks to your own intelligence or "way your brain works" that you are able to grasp it (and/or your persistence/practice over the years of learning it). But try teaching this stuff to people with no experience, and/or people who don't have as analytical a mind as us tech folks and you will quickly discover just how hard it can be. (I recently taught a college class that was an intro to web design / development - suffice to say it really gave me a clearer picture of how far I'd come in my own professional skills over the years... it's easy to forget what it was like before you knew what you know now :)
- sixQuarks 10y agoA big problem with me learning to code is my terrible memory. I get the concepts and logic of code, but it's frustrating having to re-learn everything over and over again because I can't remember the function name, format, etc. My biggest nightmare is trying to learn another language, I took 7 years of Spanish in school and I literally can't speak a sentence of Spanish.