Re: Looking for opinions on education

David's response reminded me of one thing I benefit greatly from when
adopting/learning a new language; specifically having a step debugger.
Being able to step through a program line by line is one of the best
teachers and really the only thing that satisfies my curiosity of "how does
it work and why does it work that way".

All that to say, code.visualstudio.com has an excellent debugger for
Javascript/Node.js. Many other languages have equally good step debuggers
(.NET, Java, etc), I just wanted to mention to the group that VSCode is
pretty decent with Node.js.



Aaron Bartell
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On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 10:43 AM, David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 2/16/17 4:42 PM, Glenn Gundermann wrote:

Some will tell you which language they think you should learn,
including among others Python, PHP, etc. I would suggest you might
want to learn some new tooling to develop modern applications on the
IBM i. For example, check out LANSA, BCD, or Profound Logic just to
name a few in no particular order.

I would actually suggest you focus on a new language ... specifically an
object oriented one. OO concepts are tough for those who are used to
procedural languages, and the concepts (not necessarily the
implementation) are fairly portable.

I don't recommend focusing on a specific IBM i tool, as that knowledge
isn't necessarily portable to other environments (jobs, personal
projects, etc).

These days I've been focusing on PHP & Javascript ... which I can use on
IBM i and PC's. I'm also going to start dabbling in Node.

david


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