Showing posts with label Perl. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Perl. Show all posts

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Typing.io Lets You Practise Typing In Programming Environments


Programming languages are difficult to wrap your head around at first; you need to train your muscle memory to insert different characters after typing lines. Typing.io is a tool to help budding programmers practise and become more efficient at coding.



Typing.io is not meant as a tool to teach you programming. It’s meant solely as a way to practise typing in different open-source coding environments. This includes Javascript, Ruby on Rails, Perl, C, among others. When you load one of the lessons, you simply need to type over the text on the screen. When you make an error, the text will turn red. If you’re new to programming and need help practising your skills, Typing.io is a great place to start.

Sunday, October 5, 2008

The best open source programming language

Is Perl, PHP, Python, or Ruby best? Do Java and JavaScript count?

Then we wondered whether it was fair to compare system-level programming languages with scripting languages. We went on to wonder whether various individual languages qualified as open source. It's clear that Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Tk/Tcl are open source languages; it's not so clear whether Java and JavaScript are. Is it enough for a subset of a language to have an open source repository and an ECMA (European Computer Manufacturers Association) or ISO standard, or should we consider only languages that are completely open source and have community-driven development cycles?
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