[J3] [EXTERNAL] Re: What is Jeopardy?

[Holcomb, Katherine A (kah3f)]

Much of the "learn to code" argle bargle really means "learn HTML and CSS and maybe some Javascript."  Most people can't distinguish a markup language from a programming language since both are "computery."  I can't really blame laypeople since they have little exposure to what "code" means. 

Looks like they snubbed C++ also.  My guess is they got the answers from some general-interest Website found by googling around since it's not credible to me that any computer scientist would suggest Basic (by which I assume they really mean Visual Basic), much less HTML.  Probably some list of "most popular programming languages" (Python is a tell there since it's been near the top of the charts for a while now, and Java is often #1 on such lists).

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On 12/10/20, 2:44 PM, "J3 on behalf of Reuben D. Budiardja via J3" <j3-bounces at mailman.j3-fortran.org on behalf of j3 at mailman.j3-fortran.org> wrote:

    And HTML is not even a programming language ...
    
    
    On 12/10/2020 08:30 AM, Bill Long via J3 wrote:
    > Interesting.  Might say more about Jeopardy than Fortran.  The probably asked CS professors, almost none of whom know Fortran. Magne excepted.
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    > Cheers,
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    >> On Dec 10, 2020, at 7:22 AM, Clune, Thomas L. (GSFC-6101) via J3 <j3 at mailman.j3-fortran.org> wrote:
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    >> Last night’s episode had the category “Programming Languages”.   We should feel slighted.    C,  Python, Java sure.   HTML and Basic, ugh.   But Fortran was not on the list.
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