I'm taking the
cs253 web development course on udacity. Coincidentally, the lectures are being delivered by Steve Huffman, one of the founders of
reddit! He's really flying through the content, I'm struggling to keep up with a lot of the discussion. Steve tends to glaze over details that I get hung up on -- it's like following a kid through a narrow corridor. He keeps pausing, beckoning at you to follow, but the space gets ever narrower. Case in point, google app engine's request handlers, lambda functions, template variables, and more. My brain gets snagged on these and I have to take the time to research each one of them in turn, making sure I understand just to keep up with the exploding lexicon.
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As discouraging as my pace has been, it's been motivating to hear from one of the people who shaped the internet into what it is today. One thing I really appreciate is Steve uses examples of things he learned while building his many web applications as lessons of what to do and what not to do. And I'm sure that at one point, he was just as clueless as I am. I hope.
