dummies

But still, since there's money to be made by selling dummies miracle diets, there are some to sell.

Lisp is the old and new smalltalk, and to some Ruby is the new smalltalk for dummies.

The brand name '...for dummies' was originally a bit shocking: that's part of its marketing strategy.

If someone decides to write a For Dummies version, a link would be greatly appreciated.

Does anybody know any dummies guide to astrophysics that explains how scientists plan out the journey of the spacecraft with incredible precision?

You can say I could make the same argument about 'dummies' as an insult, and I won't really complain.

I guess once these cars begin being sold people can start testing situations using dummies and such.

Idiots can learn it in 21 days, even if they are dummies.

These were conscious actions by people who could have (to use situation in your debate) replaced the live, innocent human beings with straw dummies.

Some long-term job listings, especially the vague ones, are dummies put there by recruitment firms who are keen to get you on their books.

Big companies know exactly how to take advantage of these dummies.

Even Norvig (condescendingly) concedes that idiot dummies can become bad programmers.

If the SJWs had had their way, "X for Dummies" would have changed to something that didn't hurt the feelings of dummies everywhere.

The term was being used in the same context as "dummies" is in the "for dummies" books.

This seems to be extremely similar to the "X for Dummies" series of books.

Related: is there some reliable "startup jargon for dummies" page somewhere?

I didn't realise what I was doing was programming until I took courses 16-17 and realised what I had been doing the whole time:) There was one website, Taran's Scripting For Dummies, that was pretty much my bible.

I'd also try to list all of the things that I've learned and how far I came from when I first started programming - I learned from the gentle introduction in C for Dummies, quickly got in over my head, and had a friend help me with pointing out all the off-by-one errors in my new fancy lightbar menu code bit that I wrote for Borland C/DOS, and my fancy console input routines.

For reference, I've been programming for ~20 years now and I was only able to really get started when I first read one of my all-time favorite programming books, C for Dummies:) I was a DOS-fluent 13-year old at the time, and I'd tried reading some others and found them impenetrable.