AppJet Offers Browser-Based Coding How-To, Hosting

theodp writes "Know someone who wants to learn to program? Paul Graham advises programmer wannabes to check out The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Programming on the Web from AppJet, which aims to be 'the funnest and easiest way for a beginner to get started programming.' Setting the guide apart from other tutorials is the ability to edit and run any of the all-Javascript examples directly in your browser. Newcomers to programming and experienced developers alike can also publish their AppJet creations on the web. Sure beats GE BASIC on the General Electric Time-Sharing Service!"

by "funnest"

[crenshawsgc]

When they say "funnest" I assume they mean "most fun," correct? I'm not a programmer but from what I understand, proper syntax can be important. When the site designers have gotten a better grasp of the English language, I'll trust their programming advice.

Re:by "funnest"

[jellomizer]

Well most languages have a small set of fixed syntax and a wider set of custom made syntaxes.

Remember the old joke about the programmer having trouble getting his code to compile, and some guy (a non-programmer) looks at it quickly and proudly proclaims "Oh, I see the problem. You spelled studio wrong."

Re:by "funnest"

[morgan_greywolf]

Actually, the majority of them are the ones who have to abide by the syntax of an existing language.

Unless you happen to be Guido van Rossum. In which case, you don't even have to abide by the syntax of your OWN language! :-P

(Note to humorless, Python programming mods: Guido is my personal hero and Python is my favorite interpreted language. Really.)

Re:Cool idea, but one peeve so far...

[thetoadwarrior]

Go ahead and do it with my site. In fact I enjoy the thought of people linking to my images as they don't realise that people viewing my images from outside of my domain see pics of old man sex and old men with a poo fetish.