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Coding Horror: Please Don’t Learn to Code

Coding Horror: Please Don’t Learn to Code

“It assumes that more code in the world is an inherently desirable thing. In my thirty year career as a programmer, I have found this not to be the case. Should you learn to write code? No, I can’t get behind that. You should be learning to write as little code as possible. Ideally none.” “Before you go rushing out to learn to code, figure out what your problem actually is. Do you even have a problem?”

Introduction to npm – How To Node – NodeJS

Introduction to npm – How To Node – NodeJS

“The update command does a few things. – Search the registry for new versions of all the packages installed. – If there’s a newer version, then install it. – Point dependent packages at the new version, if it satisfies their dependency. – Remove the old versions, if no other package names them as a dependency. So basically, update behaves a lot like a “standard” package manager’s update command, except that it also checks to make sure that the new version isn’t going to break anything before it points stuff at it. You see, npm keeps you out of dependency hell.”