The Four Horsemen Of Programmer Perception

Content Ok let's try running this code console. log("Hello World"); Output: ERROR Alright mavbe then this will work let str "Hello World"; console.log (str); Output: ERROR 4 HOURS LATER This is getting ridiculous, I'll just restart at step 1 Output: ERROR console. log("Hello World"); Output: Hello World! THAT WAS THE FIRST THING I TRIED!!!!

OMG THE HORROR! You mean to tell me that after years of learning fancy loops like while, for, do, and forEach, it was all just disguised goto statements the whole time?! 😱 The BETRAYAL! The DECEPTION! Our entire programming education has been one massive conspiracy theory! Next you'll tell me that object-oriented programming is just spicy procedural code and I will absolutely LOSE IT. My entire coding identity is SHATTERED. *dramatically faints onto keyboard*

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Content Your friend wants to learn to program. What language do you recommend? A. JavaScript B. Java (includes Kotlin) C. Ruby D. Python E. C F. Go G. CC H. Swift 1. PHP 9:48 pm 12 Oct 20 Twitter for iPhone 3 Retweets 3 Quote Tweets 53 Likes 17 thepoosh lepoosh 13h Replying to donnfelker the question is always "what do you want to do with it?" if it's apps, SwiftJava if it's websites (front and back) javascript if it's data science probably python if it's government C if I hate him PHP

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