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The surprising reason JavaScript is the best language for beginners

Quirks aside, JS is the most accessible language to learn.
Nieman Journalism Lab

That was quick: Four lines of code is all it takes for The New York Times’ paywall to come tumbling down

The New York Times paywall is costing the newspaper $40-$50 million to design and construct, Bloomberg has reported. And it can be defeated through four lines of Javascript. That fact is both the ...
ZDNet

Another one-line npm package breaks the JavaScript ecosystem

An update to a tiny JavaScript library has thrown a large part of the JavaScript ecosystem into chaos on Saturday, with millions of projects believed to have been impacted. Making the entire situation ...
EDN

President Obama writes his first-ever line of code, generates a simple square

On Monday, December 8, President Barack Obama became the first president to program a computer—actually the first to even write a few lines of JavaScript. Now President Obama is one of them. On the ...
GeekWire

America’s Coder in Chief: Barack Obama writes first line of code in Hour of Code challenge

Geek Life: Fun stories, memes, humor and other random items at the intersection of tech, science, business and culture. SEE MORE by Molly Brown on Dec 9, 2014 at 9:07 am December 9, 2014 at 9:07 am ...