[OLPC-Chicago] June 2

Atul Varma varmaa at gmail.com
Fri May 11 11:04:43 EDT 2007


On 5/11/07, Andrew Harrington <aharrin at luc.edu> wrote:
>
> I guess Ian will report on the politics, but the idea of the 'Show
> Source' key and keeping things in the simple Python may make them not
> encourage web apps with a lot of javascript.  Of course if the main
> logic is in Python scripts driven by the localhost server, there would
> be Python behind everything.  I wonder if it would show up with the
> 'Show Source' button code that Ivan said Guido was coding.


Yes, this was my impression (the idea that everything would be done in
Python, very little to zero Javascript required).  Yesterday Chris and
Damien and I were talking about how annoyingly hard it is to actually do web
development: it really intimidates me, honestly, because I want writing a
simple program to be simple; it should be as simple as it was in BASIC when
I was a kid, but with all the web frameworks I've seen, it's never that
easy--I always have to know intricacies about HTML and Javascript and CSS
and browser compatibility and servers and clients and URL mappings and it's
terrifying.  Perhaps necessarily so, perhaps unnecessarily so, but it's
still terrifying.

Chris and Damien also told me about a cool program called Hackety Hack (
http://hacketyhack.net/), though, which seems to get a lot of those
annoyances out of the way and let people just code stuff.  I'd be interested
in doing something like this not only for OLPC but also for, well, people
like me, because I don't like the fact that web development is as hard as it
is.

(That's cool news about Kenya by the way, Andy--I'm looking forward to
hearing how that goes!)

- Atul
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