On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 01:08:57AM -0800, Florin Pățan wrote: > And to prove how flawed your analogy with the Hello World vs extending a > distributed database is... When you start programming you barely understand > what fmt.Println() is, how would you expect someone that doesn't understand > that well to understand what net/http.ServeMux is, what it does, what an > URL path is, how those parameters in the URLs come in to play, why > something is in the path of the request and not in the query string, what's > a query string, how HTTP works, what's the web server response and so on. > For a newbie the following are questions that come up when facing with the > "Hello world": what's a function call, what's a package, why we have main, > what's the "entrypoint point" of an application and why we need on, what's > the exit code of an application, what does it mean to print on a screen, > what's a string, what do you mean by IO (because eventually someone slips > that into the explanation of "printing on the screen"), etc.
I don't expect them to understand it. That's kind of my point. A web framework would have even more weird stuff on top of it to understand. That's why you start small and try to become confident with that "Hello, world!" first. There's a reason most CS curricula have you take some basic operating systems course before making you write concurrent network servers. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
