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Novice JavaScript

Context

This article discusses strategies for teaching 100% novice programmers--the very first program and next steps after it. Target audience is grade and high school.

Problem: the quiz app

For new programmers, particularly kids, Python is the default choice for good reason: it's perfect for simple interactive apps:

Automating Life

What have we done with technology?

cars: privatized/corporatized/automated walking, biking, public transit, horses
- outcome: walkable urban centers and close-knit towns become exurbs and strip malls, ubiquitous noise, pollution and car infra, all humans required to fork over hundreds of thousands of dollars per life just to get around the way they used to be able to do for free, super long commutes, obsesity, 40k deaths per year in the US, environmental damage, lead poisoning, now cars are massively reliant on computer chips and can't be repaired easily, etc. Enabler of classical big box store style consumption.
smart phones: the control center that runs everything else and enables most other automation, replaces wallets, credit cards, traditional phones, video cameras, photo cameras, alarm clocks, music players, transit cards, watches, books, TVs, calculators, and most other single-purpose consumer goods of the 20th century
outcome: impossible to survive without technological k

Post to Slack as yourself from the CLI (macOS + Chrome)

Slack's xoxc- session tokens require an HttpOnly d cookie that JavaScript can't read. But you don't need to extract it. By running fetch() inside Chrome's Slack tab via AppleScript, the browser attaches the cookie automatically.

No bots, no webhooks, no OAuth apps. Just your existing Slack session.

Requirements

macOS (uses osascript)
Chrome with a app.slack.com tab open

Example Software Design Document

Purpose

The app will be a full-stack, multi-user wiki application, basically a simplified Wikipedia.

Technologies

Front end: React with React Router and the marked library for rendering markdown
Back end:

rice ratios: 2 cups white to 3 and 1/8 cups water, for brown, 2 cups brown to 3 cups water
congee
tomato or lentil soup
risotto: arborio rice, get 6+ cups of water on boil in a separate pot, cook the rice in another pot gradually ladeling in water from the boiling pot. can add some miso for flavor.

Music ideas

some day, take a bunch of time off and just crank out black thread tape loop music with synth + gtr, what's there to lose? use the gear before it dies and get some massive release together
look into amp modeler software
do greensleeves etc in pure data or supercollider, or modplug, or ultraabox
try that krautrock 2 chord guitar idea, see mantra by stick men for interesting similar time signature thing
make an atmospheric mc 202 album like sonno from cortini
could use pure data or something to generate midi: https://www.discogs.com/release/31033435-Colin-Marston-Solo-Instruments
title: "landscape of fadedness"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostrich_guitar / monochord

	#!/usr/bin/env python3

	# Git stats are misleading because some people squash merge and some people
	# create merge commits, bringing their history of commits from the branch onto
	# master and making it look like they did way more work relative to squashers.
	#
	# This tries to treat merge commits as if they were squash merged so repo stats
	# are actually normalized/comparable. It also merges by identical name and email.
	#
	# I'm sure this isn't 100% accurate, particularly for LOC, but anecdotally seems

	<!doctype html>
	<div id="app">
	<button @click="newConversation()">
	New Conversation
	</button>
	<div v-for="(conversation, index) in conversations" :key="index">
	<h3>Conversation {{ index + 1 }}</h3>
	<ul>
	<li v-for="message in conversation.messages" :key="message">{{ message }}</li>
	</ul>

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html lang="en">
	<head>
	<meta charset="UTF-8" />
	<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
	<title>HAR Cleaner</title>
	<style>
	:root { color-scheme: light dark; }
	body { margin:0; font-family: system-ui, sans-serif; }