Comments by "DefaultFlame" (@DefaultFlame) on "Computerphile" channel.

  1. I've just started learning programming (Java), and I can say that dynamically typed languages just rub me the wrong way. And significant whitespace does the same, but 100 times more.
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  2. This man is amazing. Edit: I have extremely limited experience with programming, mostly limited to games like Shenzhen I/O, TIS-100, and some limited scripting in a few other games, as well as a fascination with youtube channels like The Coding Train and Ben Eater. My, mostly uninformed, opinion is that Assembly is charming in the way you interact so closely with the hardware, while C has the simplicity of a higher level language than Assembly while not limiting your ability to interact with the hardware as much as other high level languages. It gives you the power to do amazing things, as well as allowing you to completely screw yourself over. (I find things like the story of Melvin Kaye absolutely intriguing.)
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  3.  @davidwuhrer6704  Don't have a choice. I've tried learning programming on and off for over a decade. The way it's taught, the written resources that exist, and the tutorials just don't work for me. I can't learn from them. There's just something about how almost everyone teaches it that is completely incompatible with me. It wasn't until I came across one specific series of tutorials for Processing that I actually was able to understand and start learning. Processing uses simplified Java, so that's my first language. What I really wanted to learn was C, but every resource I've been able to find for learning it was completely impenetrable, same as every other language I've tried. Technically, the Assembly in the TIS-100 and Shenzhen I/O games was the first language I learned, but Assembly is a bit too low level and hardware specific to use much, even if it actually was the first programming "language" that actually made sense to me. (It's not really a language, just mnemonics for op codes.) So Java it is and will continue to be, at least until I feel confident enough in the basics to try learning another language.
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