Comments on: FBLA Presentations http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/10/07/fbla-presentations/ Education and Technology Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:52:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/10/07/fbla-presentations/comment-page-1/#comment-13391 Steve Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:18:03 +0000 http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1338#comment-13391 My bad on the JAVA--I'll fix that. I knew that, but that last slide was admittedly done in haste. I'm not really much the programmer, and just mentioned the ones I have dealt with, but you are right, Ruby and Python should have been included as they are becoming much more prevalent. I must say though, it still amazes me how few have any idea about the ease with which websites can be created with open source software. My bad on the JAVA–I’ll fix that. I knew that, but that last slide was admittedly done in haste. I’m not really much the programmer, and just mentioned the ones I have dealt with, but you are right, Ruby and Python should have been included as they are becoming much more prevalent.

I must say though, it still amazes me how few have any idea about the ease with which websites can be created with open source software.

]]> By: Matt Leifer http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/10/07/fbla-presentations/comment-page-1/#comment-13387 Matt Leifer Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:39:22 +0000 http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1338#comment-13387 I really enjoyed your talk on better presentations, primarily because I am terrible at it myself. In your presentation on building websites I think you meant javascript rather than java. They are very different languages and javascript is the one that you'll find in things like Wordpress and Elgg. You can build websites in java, but you have to be completely insane to do so. Also worth mentioning things like Python and Ruby, since I find that writing sites in them is much more fun than PHP and you'll find plenty of open source web apps written in them. I really enjoyed your talk on better presentations, primarily because I am terrible at it myself.

In your presentation on building websites I think you meant javascript rather than java. They are very different languages and javascript is the one that you’ll find in things like WordPress and Elgg. You can build websites in java, but you have to be completely insane to do so.

Also worth mentioning things like Python and Ruby, since I find that writing sites in them is much more fun than PHP and you’ll find plenty of open source web apps written in them.

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