<story><title>Using Code Snippets in Chrome Developer Tools</title><url>http://www.alexkras.com/using-code-snippets-to-test-save-and-reuse-javascript-code-in-chrome-developer-tools/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kyriakos</author><text>In the 80s home computers shipped with a programming language as their OS (BASIC language to be precise) - today the browser dev tools are the closest equivalent. You can use them on any PC with no additional software - wished it was made more obvious so everyone could experiment with programming like those of us who got their first computer experience 25-30 years ago could do.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spyder</author><text>But if you have internet access then you can get almost any dev tool and documentation, but if you don&amp;#x27;t have access then you probably don&amp;#x27;t have Chrome or Firefox, and even if you have the browser, it has no offline documentation.
The 80s was different because internet access wasn&amp;#x27;t so widespread.</text></comment>
<story><title>Using Code Snippets in Chrome Developer Tools</title><url>http://www.alexkras.com/using-code-snippets-to-test-save-and-reuse-javascript-code-in-chrome-developer-tools/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kyriakos</author><text>In the 80s home computers shipped with a programming language as their OS (BASIC language to be precise) - today the browser dev tools are the closest equivalent. You can use them on any PC with no additional software - wished it was made more obvious so everyone could experiment with programming like those of us who got their first computer experience 25-30 years ago could do.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>niftich</author><text>The browser has always been the one of the easiest ways of tinkering with programming, but these days our browsers come with sophisticated developer tools unlike anything else installed on an average person&amp;#x27;s PC.&lt;p&gt;Back when I didn&amp;#x27;t know anything about compilers I wanted to write &amp;#x27;C++&amp;#x27; but didn&amp;#x27;t understand how I could produce an executable, I instead saved html and js into folder and loaded them up in the browser -- and any changes were visible on refresh.&lt;p&gt;And actually, these days this tinkering doesn&amp;#x27;t even have to take place locally. With sites like jsfiddle, anyone can develop remotely while still being able to debug the execution from the browser.</text></comment>