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    What skills do puzzles in programming develop?

    A possible advantage is that the answer doesn't always lie an internet search away. If you want to make your students think to eventually get the programming mindset needed, you can easily make up an original question that must be thought out instead of copied from some programming forum. The...
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    Why are interpretive languages used in web development?

    They are used for web and other applications were performance in terms of execution speed doesn't matter much. In case of the web, this is because I/O is the main bottleneck. That is, your web server will be waiting many orders of magnitudes longer for the database to spit out the data need than...