Will Stephenson wrote:
On Saturday 21 Apr 2012 09:50:09 Per Jessen wrote:
Roger Luedecke wrote:
I have been learning Javascript on codeacademy.com . Now I'm nearly done with the tract, and have no clue what to do with what I learned. Could also use advice on a good IDE. I was checking out Eclipse, but for some reason it hasn't been built for 12.1, and I hate running things that aren't packaged in an .rpm. Got any ideas on how I can get involved with FOSS using Javascript that is suitable to a new programmer?
To my knowledge, javascript is used almost exclusively in browsers, so start by writing a website? If you put together some reusable code, you can publish it as FOSS.
Not any more, Per! Now that the kids only know Javascript, the desktops have had to lower the bar to entry to avoid running out of coders as us C/C++ dinosaurs shuffle over the various hills.
GNOME Shell is written in JS, as far as I know.
KDE Plasma applets may be written in JS (and Python, and Ruby, and C++). In the near future, the preferred way to write applets will be QML, which is a CSS/JSON-alike declarative markup with logic in JS.
Wow, I had no idea. Well, there is a place for Roger's newly acquired javascript skills then. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (12.3°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org