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Java Jabba Doooooo!

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"No," Imad said. I think my tagline is great. He's just jealous he didn't come up with it. *Disclaimer: I understand that Java is not JavaScript. But "JavaScript jabba doo!" does not have the same sound or flair/Flinstones-quality I seek.  This week was my first foray into a programming language. I was intimidated for the longest time as I had thought I needed to know HTML and CSS before coding a computer programming language. I bought a course on web development on Udemy at the end of 2016. It was great but also extensive and at the time, I had other priorities and did not finish the first assignment so I never moved on from the first unit. That's e-learning! A gamer told me about Codecademy when I was in first year. I don't play games but I've come into groups of seriously competitive gamers a couple times in my time at university. It took four years of stewing for me to make use of the resource (the well-developed free online curriculu...