[p2pu-webcraft] Google's Dart

[John Britton]

Hey Nick,

There was a couse on Titanium at one point I believe, but I'm not sure if
anyone has worked on Phone Gap. I'd love to see some Diaspora* action going
too, we're definitely open to those topics if someone decides to put
something together.

The SoW homepage features challeneges right now because we don't really have
a way to create "collections" of courses/groups/challenges and featuring
them on the homepage was the only way to show them all together right now.
Once we've had a chance to see how the challenges work and get some more
feedback we're going to put them together into sets and will add other
featured course to the SoW landing page.

Cheers,
John Britton
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On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Nicholas Doiron <ndoiron at andrew.cmu.edu>wrote:

> I have to say I have similar doubts about using Dart.  If you don't know
> JavaScript, you won't get *why* Google proposed a new language, or why
> Dart compiles into JavaScript.  For people coming in without
> HTML/CSS/JavaScript knowledge, I'd recommend P2PU courses involving those
> three.
>
> Has P2PU had courses for much more popular next-web-tech platforms such as
> Native Client, Go language, Diaspora, or Phone Gap?  I'd sign up for a
> course in any of those before Dart right now.
>
> Side note: why are only challenges featured on the front page of School of
> Webcraft?  http://p2pu.org/en/schools/school-of-webcraft/
>
> Regards,
> Nick Doiron
>
> On Thu, October 13, 2011 5:53 am, Dan Diebolt wrote:
> >> You mean that there should be a course on a proposed language that may
> >> or
> > may not be implemented by browsers and that has not really impressed the
> > web community yet?
> >
> > Absolutely - the discussion around Dart is enthralling and you will learn
> > a lot about programming language design and get a great understanding of
> > the shortcomings of current practices. There is a brain trust of talent
> at
> >  google and from the community at large giving their opinions and it is
> > one of the richest and most passionate exchanges of ideas I have seen in
> a
> >  while. But I agree that Dart has a lot of obstacles to overcome for
> > acceptance and Brendan Eich himself has said you will never see it in
> > Mozilla and other browsers. Browser Wars Redux.
> >
> >
> > However, the real point of the post was to highlight yet another
> > opportunity where bringing external content into the P2PU would provide
> > another great learning opportunity on a hot topic.
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Lars Gunther <gunther at keryx.se> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> 2011-10-11 19:15, Dan Diebolt skrev:
> >>
> >>
> >>> You could be so bleeding edge and have a course for example on
> >>> Google's
> >>> new *Dart *language which is smoking hot right now.
> >>>
> >>
> >> You mean that there should be a course on a proposed language that may
> >> or may not be implemented by browsers and that has not really impressed
> >> the web community yet?
> >>
> >> And even if Google *can* convince Mozilla, Microsoft, Opera and Apple
> >> that Dart is needed and the best solution (which I see no sign of yet)
> >> it will take a few years until browser support is good enough for the
> >> language to be actually used.
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Lars Gunther
> >> http://keryx.se/
> >> http://twitter.com/itpastorn/
> >> http://itpastorn.blogspot.com/
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