I think the general idea of the article - to find something you want to do and then use google to solve it, is a good one. If you force people to first read big books about coding guidelines before doing anything of interest TO THEM, most will just give up. Of course, one can disagree about the articles or sites suggested, but that's not the main point IMO.
Just Googling is horrible way to learn how to program. Sure you may find an answer relatively quickly, but down the road when you come up against more difficult problems and can't find the answer, what then?
You don't learn by just Googling, you learn by working through the problem which reinforces concepts that you've read. Using Google is like if you were to go through school just copying answers -- you'd learn absolutely nothing!
My point is that CS should be of interest to them.
I mean, they can become copy-and-paste ASP.NET programmers who botch projects all day, but realistically, they're going to love learning the basic CS concepts, or they're not going to love programming at all.
"The Board approved a plan to dramatically increase the number of Internet domain name endings [..] from the current 22, which includes such familiar domains as .com, .org and .net"
Where do those 22 come from? doesn't each contry have its own TLD?
I started with Qbasic and did my first more ambitious projects in PHP. I agree that it is really easy to get started, but the horrible security holes I created are the downside;-)
