re: Coursera Python Class Discussion Thread

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Seconded...LOTS of mis-information in there..

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Thirded.


From the very beginning

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SQL is Search Query Language

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It's Structured Query Language

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CGI (common graphic interface)

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It's Common Gateway Interface

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PHP is an extension of HTML designed to enhance versatility, like adding a clock or an animation.

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PHP is its own language, not an extension of HTML

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Java was designed originally to create virtual application on a webpage, like the FLASH viewer.

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Java was designed to allow for "write once, run anywhere" programming. It was not designed specifically for embedded web applications, though of course it can and is used for those, as well as for server-side web apps, and really for anything that qualifies as "anywhere".

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It was originally written by Silicon General (?)

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Sun Microsystems

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Because of Google's anti-security position however, hackers quickly rose to the challenge and produced the next and greatest generation of security compromising software.

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Not sure what this is all about

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Finally we get to VBA, which is good old Microsoft Visual Basic also called VBscript.
This was MS's push back to Javascript originally.

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Visual Basic, VBA, and VBScript are all different things.

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The problem was MS wanted to make money off of VB and Javascript was free. Guess who won?

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VBScript is very widely used

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Operating systems have a kernal, the portion of the code that every command must pass through.
This is generally written in assembler code.

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Kernels these days are generally written in C, with some assembler sprinkled in.



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