Programming By Stealth

Bart Busschots is back with episode 2 of his Programming By Stealth series. He'll take us on our first baby step towards programming by explaining how the Hyper-Text Markup Language works, better known to us all as HTML. HTML is not a true programming language, it is instead a simpler beast known as a markup language – it adds context to text.

Bart's companion tutorial can be found on his website at bartbusschots.ie/s/2015/10/23/programming-by-stealth-2-of-x-basic-html.

it's that time of the week again, it's time for Chit Chat Across the Pond and this is episode 407 and I'm your host, Allison Sheridan . If you're new here, Chit Chat Across the Pond has been an embedded part of the weekly show, the NosillaCast, since November 25th, 2007. I just decided to spin off Chit Chat Across the Pond as it's own show and the feedback I've gotten from NosillaCast listeners has been overwhelmingly positive.

Chit Chat Across the Pond began as a weekly segment with Bart Busschots in Ireland (hence the pond bit) but over the years it has morphed into every other week with Bart, and the other every other week with me talking to someone I find interesting in tech. We've had some fabulous guests on in the past 8 years and I've got a long list of folks I still want to talk to so expect this series to go on as long as the NosillaCast.

All of that preamble is my way of saying we're here with Bart Busschots where he's starting a new series he's calling Programming By Stealth. This episode originally aired as part of NosillaCast #544 on October 12th 2015, but I wanted it to be included in the standalone Chit Chat Across the Pond series. By the way, f you're wondering what happened to Bart's Security Lite segment, it's staying with the NosillaCast.

The written tutorial that accompanies Bart's Programming By Stealth - 1 of X can be found at bartbusschots.ie/s/2015/10/09/programming-by-stealth-1-of-x-introduction/.

In this inaugural episode of Programming By Stealth, computer scientist and linux system admin Bart Busschots explains what his approach is going to be on teaching us to program. He plans to emphasize methods and concepts while teaching us specific languages along the way. As he says, "The tool you happen to use most today is unlikely to be the one you use most a decade from now." Bart has over 20 years of programming in X86 Assembler, BASIC, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, BASH, Lisp, Maple, Matlab, and more. We don't know how long this series will go, hence the "of X" in the title.

The written tutorial that accompanies Bart’s Programming By Stealth – 1 of X can be found at bartbusschots.ie/s/2015/10/09/programming-by-stealth-1-of-x-introduction/.