WEBVTT 00:00.190 --> 00:00.690 All right. 00:00.900 --> 00:03.640 So I'll start this video off with a quick anecdote. 00:03.780 --> 00:04.960 Stupid story. 00:05.070 --> 00:08.110 I have a course online right now. 00:08.220 --> 00:14.600 It's done relatively well a lot of students and it focuses on a bunch of technologies including H.M.S. 00:14.680 --> 00:15.630 s javascript. 00:15.630 --> 00:17.550 We talk about no genius as well. 00:17.550 --> 00:23.850 Talk about Mango D.B and a bunch of other tools that go along with them and at least a couple times 00:23.850 --> 00:24.790 a day. 00:24.840 --> 00:31.890 You know I get comments or questions or people demanding that you know it should cover ph or should 00:31.890 --> 00:36.480 cover Ruby or why doesn't that cover C or Java. 00:36.810 --> 00:39.570 And those are valid questions right. 00:39.570 --> 00:41.780 People have reasons for wanting to learn different things. 00:41.940 --> 00:45.910 So I'm not trying to diminish their concerns or not. 00:46.020 --> 00:47.660 I'm not trying to say they shouldn't want to learn those. 00:47.760 --> 00:51.170 But there's no way that any course can teach all of those. 00:51.270 --> 00:56.760 And there's no reason that it should because like I said you only need one maybe two. 00:56.970 --> 01:00.430 So the reason I bring that up is that it's kind of a contentious thing. 01:00.810 --> 01:04.440 People especially students when people are learning to program it's overwhelming. 01:04.440 --> 01:05.900 Everyone tells you to learn something else. 01:05.910 --> 01:07.320 It's very confusing. 01:07.320 --> 01:11.580 You know do you learn something that's easy to learn because it's easy to learn or is it better to learn 01:11.580 --> 01:16.820 something that's popular and more people are using even if it means that it's tougher. 01:17.040 --> 01:18.160 You know what's the best route. 01:18.270 --> 01:21.250 And I think the answer is there is a different way for everyone. 01:21.270 --> 01:23.610 It's kind of a lame copout answer. 01:23.790 --> 01:27.470 So when you're making an online course you have to decide. 01:27.660 --> 01:33.630 And what I decided for this course is we're focusing primarily on node and the typical kind of conventional 01:33.630 --> 01:35.280 choice would be ph. 01:35.800 --> 01:41.550 So I would talk about why I made that decision and the first reason is that I personally am not crazy 01:41.550 --> 01:42.720 about BHP. 01:42.750 --> 01:46.160 I've done some work with it some worked with wordpress. 01:46.600 --> 01:48.480 Like I said I used to be very popular. 01:48.550 --> 01:53.540 There's still a lot of people using it but it is no longer the reigning champion of programming languages 01:53.550 --> 01:54.360 on the web. 01:54.360 --> 01:55.970 Like seven years ago it was. 01:56.100 --> 01:59.850 That was the language that you used if you wanted to make a web app. 02:00.210 --> 02:02.230 But nowadays there's so much more competition. 02:02.370 --> 02:07.860 People are writing things in Noad or they're writing them in Ruby and tons of other languages. 02:07.860 --> 02:13.500 Scala closure all these different languages that you could use and they all have benefits right. 02:13.500 --> 02:15.360 They all have kind of they came later. 02:15.390 --> 02:21.000 They were able to see what worked what didn't work where problems were with other languages. 02:21.000 --> 02:23.490 They all kind of tried to address different things. 02:23.730 --> 02:27.000 So I won't go into a lot of the technical details. 02:27.040 --> 02:29.750 There there's an interesting article online. 02:30.080 --> 02:32.560 Is the most hated programming language. 02:32.580 --> 02:36.360 Not that that is an excuse to not use it but it's interesting. 02:36.360 --> 02:38.080 I'll link to it if you want to read about it. 02:38.250 --> 02:46.200 Basically talks about how PDP got so popular back in 1995 when it started and then where does the hate 02:46.200 --> 02:47.520 towards it come from. 02:47.580 --> 02:55.380 And largely the consensus at least is that P2P was kind of cobbled together it wasn't a consciously 02:55.470 --> 02:57.320 crafted as this as here. 02:57.450 --> 03:02.730 Programming Language things are added over the years and there's inconsistency there are some security 03:02.730 --> 03:09.000 issues but you could actually say the same thing about javascript which is a valid criticism that it 03:09.000 --> 03:10.500 was created. 03:10.620 --> 03:14.080 And I think it's nine or 10 days kind of as an experiment. 03:14.160 --> 03:18.870 It wasn't some crazy planned out language and things have been added over the years and they're constantly 03:19.170 --> 03:22.940 updating the specification for Javascript. 03:23.070 --> 03:30.570 So that's not necessarily why I chose to not teach Ph.D. and choose a node in javascript instead. 03:30.840 --> 03:34.470 It's really more about the data that's on this page. 03:34.470 --> 03:35.870 This is from 2016. 03:36.020 --> 03:44.850 It's a stack overflow server they do with how many 56000 coders who answered the survey and there's 03:44.850 --> 03:46.250 45 questions. 03:46.530 --> 03:53.190 So if we scroll down and click on technology and go look at the technologies tabs we can quickly see 03:53.250 --> 03:54.830 first of all it's sequel. 03:54.840 --> 03:57.110 Very popular good news. 03:57.360 --> 04:03.110 And you can see here you have HP which is in 2016 around 25 percent. 04:03.180 --> 04:11.120 If you go back to 2013 noter said it started at 35 percent then went down to 28 percent then up a little 04:11.130 --> 04:15.000 to 29 and then down to 25 so the lowest it's been. 04:15.180 --> 04:22.380 So you can see there are charts online that I couldn't find any that were copyright free essentially 04:22.770 --> 04:25.730 had a license that I would be able to show you the image. 04:25.740 --> 04:28.260 But there are charges online you can see the decline. 04:28.350 --> 04:35.010 It's not a very steep decline but there is a decline and at the same time if we look at no japes here 04:35.670 --> 04:43.580 which is was it seven point five percent now it's going up to 9.9 percent 13 percent 17 percent. 04:43.600 --> 04:48.290 It's growing very quickly in comparison to other things around it. 04:48.400 --> 04:54.730 And then also if you take a look you know javascript does appear as number one which is great because 04:54.850 --> 04:56.590 no genius uses Javascript syntax. 04:56.610 --> 04:57.580 It is javascript. 04:57.580 --> 05:00.470 We'll talk about that if you're not familiar with it. 05:00.700 --> 05:06.560 So you know if you notice a trend down here more people use javascript than any other programming language. 05:06.680 --> 05:10.090 PH appears to be falling out of favor as node and angular merge. 05:10.210 --> 05:12.600 That's kind of the main takeaway trend. 05:13.030 --> 05:20.380 And if we scroll down a bit more we can take a look at the top tech on Stack Overflow see javascript's 05:20.590 --> 05:22.500 up nice and high still. 05:22.930 --> 05:28.630 If we look at trending stuff we basically see that it's all javascript while almost all javascript related 05:28.630 --> 05:30.430 re-act javascript. 05:30.670 --> 05:33.930 We've got node nowhere on here page. 05:33.970 --> 05:39.420 Now I don't want to say that you only pick something based off of it's if it's trendy or not. 05:39.610 --> 05:41.090 That's not the point here. 05:41.140 --> 05:47.020 The point is more that I picked no because it is something that will prepare you for the future and 05:47.050 --> 05:48.420 if you want to learn ph. 05:48.520 --> 05:53.320 There are so many options out there and I didn't want to just make another version of a course that 05:53.650 --> 05:55.600 could have been made a couple of years ago. 05:55.600 --> 05:58.050 I wanted to make the most up to date current course. 05:58.060 --> 06:01.060 So basically you know it's a decision that I made. 06:01.120 --> 06:03.440 There is not one answer. 06:03.530 --> 06:10.090 You could still make a great ph P in my s to of course today I'll probably end up adding a little P.S. 06:10.330 --> 06:12.850 But it's not going to be the focus of the course. 06:13.030 --> 06:19.840 And minor minor thing but it is interesting if you look at your top paying jobs or free stroll down 06:19.870 --> 06:25.070 and look at you know what no developer an average around $85000. 06:25.080 --> 06:29.480 The Capeci minor while $10000 difference. 06:29.710 --> 06:30.730 So nothing. 06:30.730 --> 06:32.360 That's why I chose to do that. 06:32.360 --> 06:34.060 But it is interesting to see. 06:34.120 --> 06:41.680 And then finally if you look at the correlated technologies you can see ph P and sequel there's a tight 06:41.680 --> 06:42.940 correlation there right. 06:43.120 --> 06:48.430 But there's also javascript and sequel which is what we're going to be focusing on and that's becoming 06:48.430 --> 06:49.570 very very popular. 06:49.570 --> 06:50.910 A great combination. 06:51.050 --> 06:52.950 So that's horrible. 06:53.530 --> 06:57.220 So that's sort of some of the data behind why I picked that. 06:57.250 --> 06:58.450 Why I came to this decision. 06:58.450 --> 06:59.760 If you're curious about it. 06:59.860 --> 07:05.800 One other thing there there's a good core post about why BHP is losing popularity why people are trying 07:05.800 --> 07:12.550 to you know and stuff and Ruby and why people are you know down on HP which hopefully the takeaway is 07:12.550 --> 07:14.690 that that's not my intention. 07:14.770 --> 07:17.100 I'm not trying to make Peachi seem bad. 07:17.110 --> 07:19.710 I am just trying to show you another option. 07:19.720 --> 07:20.010 All right. 07:20.050 --> 07:21.840 So thankfully this was an optional video. 07:21.910 --> 07:25.990 You didn't have to sit through this and not that you have to sit through any video but well we're done 07:25.990 --> 07:26.830 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