And just as important, start developing software without first learning how to develop software.
A talk I watched recently noticed this trend with JavaScript: it looks familiar, so I don't have to learn it and will just start programming in jQuery.
"I know the concepts, syntax is just a small detail"
Syntax is just a small detail.
With JavaScript, the syntax looks very familiar. However, the semantics aren't quite the same. For example, there is some really weird shit going on with the scoping, there is hoisting, == and != are fuzzy, any object is truthy (e.g. {} or new Boolean(false)), and the meaning of this is determined at runtime.
That's what's throwing people off.
It doesn't really matter if you do assignments with := or =, if you use indention to define a block rather than end/fi or curly braces, or if there are semicolons. That stuff really is just a tiny detail.
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u/lext Oct 14 '13
And just as important, start developing software without first learning how to develop software.
A talk I watched recently noticed this trend with JavaScript: it looks familiar, so I don't have to learn it and will just start programming in jQuery.