2. learned to program because it was easy to play, and you didn't have to figure out an IDE or a java class. what exists like that today?

May 11, 2014 · 3:26 AM UTC

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@sama Python
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@sama Minecraft.
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@sama The Javascript track on Code Academy is digestible.
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@sama I remember spending 3 days trying to configure my environment for c++. Gave up. Worst first programming experience ever.
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@sean_a_rose are you guys dabbling with Meteor at Box?
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@sean_a_rose huh, nice POC. I agree with your comment to @sama - @MeteorJS does a lot of work to let you get started on prototypes quickly.
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@sean_a_rose The way that Meteor.call's callbacks get fired after all subscription updates have finished is nice too.
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@sean_a_rose a lot of things like that 'just work'. It's been a great experience working with it to build respond.ly
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@sama @processingorg does a great job at getting you to play with not too much effort and rapidly get you doing very cool stuff w little
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@sama Flash/ActionScript even had drag-and-drop coding in version 4