Year of code

[vwdan]

I support the concept because for years I've moaned about how IT may as well be rebranded "Doing office work with a computer", but like everything else it's half baked and ill thought out. Last month I built a virtual desktop infrastructure for a school so they had a sandbox to play with - they had never ever used most of the things they asked me to include...

[darmstadt]

No but you'd hope he knows what it smells like and which end it comes out of.

With the current bunch of politicos, both ends

[Sysman]

Lame. The minister for agriculture isn't expected to have spent time shovelling cowtulip.

No he is expected to speak it instead.

A stint mucking out the cows would do some of these politicos good.

--
Farmer Giles

[DimPrawn]

Is this the best way to start?

10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
20 GOTO 10

i prefer

'¡I%e!c0ĄJ¥eìo0¸ËefMs0µKcÊIs0´Ê¢1éo'.split(0).map(s=>{return s.split('').map(c=>{for(i=8,s='';i--;)s+=(c.charCodeAt(0)-33)&(1<<i)?'#':' ';return s;}).join('')}).join('\n')

[darmstadt]

i prefer

'¡I%e!c0ĄJ¥eìo0¸ËefMs0µKcÊIs0´Ê¢1éo'.split(0).map(s=>{return s.split('').map(c=>{for(i=8,s='';i--;)s+=(c.charCodeAt(0)-33)&(1<<i)?'#':' ';return s;}).join('')}).join('\n')

or Brain**** - Hello World -

++++++++++[>+++++++>++++++++++>+++>+<<<<-]>++.>+.+++++++..+++.>++.<<+++++++++++++++.>.+++.------.--------.>+.>.

[darmstadt]

It would have been a lot cheaper just to provide a link to this page: 10 places where anyone can learn to code | TED Blog