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[Gravitas]

Are there any programmers in these forums? If so, then this is a great place to hang out. Hopefully I can chat with fellow coders here.

I'll get us started by saying that I freaking HATE Ruby on Rails. I don't know why everybody lauds it as the holy grail of web development. Nothing makes sense. I have no idea why Rails interprets things in the ways that it does. Why can't I just have control over my own code?

 

[Maniacal Engineer]

I do a bit of coding. Nothing too serious, since my focus was engineering, not computer sciences, but I've used Java and C++.

I did, however, use my company's unique communication language to program one of our industrial robots to play Tic-Tac-Toe.

 

[Pikochu]

I haven't been too deep in my Computer Science degree but I am familiar with basic data structures and algorithms, mainly sorting, searching and traversing trees.

As for actual programming though, I mainly use it to do repetitive calculations and I have programmed a few modules for Android Applications. One of my big projects was to program a long board via Android App using Bluetooth.

 

[ReturnofMCH]

I took a class for basic, javascript, and soon java.

 

[Pikochu]

What's an array + array in Javascript me?

 

[ReturnofMCH]

an array is just a list by all other names.
to do an array in javascript, you write var array (item, thing, stuff,) which are array values 0, 1, & 2, respectively.
at least that's what I remember.

 

[winstein]

What's an array + array in Javascript me?

Is there a reason you called it "Array + array"? Is there any difference from just being called "array"?

Thanks for reading.

 

[Pikochu]

an array is just a list by all other names.
to do an array in javascript, you write var array (item, thing, stuff,) which are array values 0, 1, & 2, respectively.
at least that's what I remember.

Well, Javascript would give very weird results. I needed an excuse to link to this video about the weirdness of Javascript:

Spoiler

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20BySC_6HyY

Is there a reason you called it "Array + array"? Is there any difference from just being called "array"?

Thanks for reading.

Usually in programming languages, array + array would result in typeerror at compile time or empty array. However, in Javascript, you get an empty string, which is non-intuitive.

There wasn't a reason why I called it array + array, but I had to look it up to make sure I didn't unintentionally say something stupid. I did come across this while searching to see if I was stupid or not:

What’s the difference between "Array()" and "[]" while declaring a JavaScript array?

 

[Shinobu]

Usually in programming languages, array + array would result in typeerror at compile time or empty array. However, in Javascript, you get an empty string, which is non-intuitive.

JavaScript's type system system and syntax weren't particularly well thought out. I don't know if the + operator actually does anything (consistent) for arrays. If you want to concatenate arrays just use the concat method. Additionally using new Array() is strongly discouraged for JavaScript.

 

[Pikochu]

I'm sure we all feel like this when looking at Stackoverflow