I wasn’t sure whether to incorporate the traditional “Hello World!” artefact, or delete it.
Obviously, leaving the text “Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!” would be a ridiculous thing to do…
I remember the first time I heard about the practice of outputting “hello world” the first time a programme is used or when training someone in a new application. It was when I was working at Walsall College, and I managed to get onto a beginners’ training course for Dreamweaver, even though it wasn’t strictly necessary for my job. It did actually come in useful though when I helped @anamilgram teach a five-week workshop on web design with a bunch of teens at the now defunct Walsall Youth Arts (Thanks funding cut Tories). I don’t think I ever actually used Dreamweaver again after that.
Then there’s this…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_world_program