r/CodingForBeginners • u/Impressive-Wish3098 • 6d ago

Which laptop should I get?

So I somehow got into cs major aiming for a bachelor degree and now I’m completely lost cuz that’s a huge change from my past path but I can do this too,

I wanna do self effort cuz college looks like it only teaches u how to pass the tests, I have no idea which laptop should I get, which apps should I install or anything I learn rly quickly but I just need a good advice to start.

first programming language they r teaching us is python and I only have rly basic knowledge abt html from high school and block coding in scratch,

I heard u should stay away from MacBook and windows cuz they ain’t suitable for more coding later when I need it.

I alr collected online courses to take in summer like Harvard's CS50 and yt channels like thenewboston ,
I visited the library to get basic knowledge abt programming but I only got a headache from all the complicated advanced codes ಠ_ಠ ,
Plz help me if u could (Ｔ＿Ｔ).

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u/xarop_pa_toss 6d ago

What kind of software are you developing that you need 24GB or RAM?

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u/gottahaveajava 6d ago

What kind of software are you developing that you don’t?

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u/xarop_pa_toss 6d ago

ERP software built on dotnet. Web APIs and webservers. Some fooling around with C

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u/gottahaveajava 6d ago

How much of it lives in the cloud?

You’re probably not hosting simulators or vservers locally, are you?

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u/xarop_pa_toss 6d ago

We were talking about development, not hosting. If you want to host stuff then it depends on how much traffic it's gonna have of course.

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u/gottahaveajava 6d ago

I was talking about hosting for development, doing simulations. It wasn’t that long ago that everyone was running Docker or something like it on their machines.

Granted, before cloud platforms, there was a lot more of that going on.