@rob_rich

A Programming Career

by Mr. Richardson

About Me

Mr. Richardson is a software craftsman building web properties in ASP.NET and Node, Angular and React. He's a frequent speaker at conferences, user groups, and community events, and a diligent teacher and student of high quality software development. You can find this and other talks on https://robrich.org/presentations and follow him on twitter at @rob_rich.

A Programming Career

SQL


SELECT TOP 25 FirstName + ' ' + LastName, Email,
Grade, Address, City, State, Zip
FROM dbo.Student
WHERE Grade = 12
ORDER BY LastName, FirstName DESCENDING

SQL (pronounced SEQUEL)
is a language for reading databases

HTML

<html>
<head>
  <title>This is the text on the browser tab</title>
</head>
<body>
  <h1>This is the page title</h1>
  <p>This is a paragraph about the cool page.</p>
  Link to another page <a href="http://www.somesite.com/">here</a>
  <small>This is small but you can still read it.</small>
  This text is <b>bold</b> and this is <i>italic</i>.
</body>
</html>

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)
is a language for writing web pages

JavaScript

function factorial(num) {
  if (num < 0) {
    return -1; // reject invalid input
  }
  if (num === 0) {
    return 1; // 0! => 1
  }
  return (num * factorial(num - 1)); // 5! => 5 * 4 * 3 * 2 * 1
}

var result = factorial(8);
console.log(result); // 40320

JavaScript is a C-style language
like C, C++, Java, and C#

Latin sentence

Puella est laeta.

The girl is happy.

Programming Sentence

var girl = new Girl();   // <-- noun
girl.Age = 15;           // <-- adjective
girl.HasShoes = true;    // <-- adjective
girl.Shirt.Color = "black";
girl.Study();            // <-- verb
if (girl.IsTired) {
  girl.Sleep();          // <-- sentence
}
//            ^ punctuation

Programming is speaking in computer languages
to give computers instructions