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code_staron Expert predicts a major hurricane hitting Houston would be “America’s Chernobyl”

A big difference is the size of the population that lives in the danger area because of Houston zoning. It's the 4 largest city in the US by population with a massive greater city area

code_staron Ask HN: How many of you non-tech people wanted to learn to code and gave up

You are painting with pretty broad strokes there huh? Not everyone is a stereotype in a tv show.

code_staron Ask HN: How many of you non-tech people wanted to learn to code and gave up

The place to start really depends on what you are interested in. If you already know you want to do a bunch of web programming just start out with javascript.

If you think you might go on to do lots of types of programming then learning python is a great place to start

Check out reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer if you want interesting things to work on them. A lot of those tasks are not so simple that they can be done in a couple of hours, but not so long as to be crazy hard.

I was a big fan or this one

https://www.reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer/comments/3fva66/201...