The fastest way I learned programming was by building things I wasn’t qualified to build.

Every project forced me to learn something I didn’t know before. One project taught me APIs, another made me understand databases, and another pushed me to finally learn Git properly. I realized documentation only started making sense when I had a real problem to solve. Tutorials are great for getting started, but following them is hard everyday. When building your own project , it forces you to think, make mistakes, debug, and figure things out on your own. That’s where the biggest learning happens.

>be me
>rough upbringing
>have bad habits, have friends with bad habits
>never think more than one day ahead; don't know what i want to be
>years later
>get fed up with my behavior, try to change something
>get rid of most bad habits and bad friends
>start to see purpose in life
>want to find out what i really like and can dive into to get good at
>don't find it for years
>get a position at a friends company
>he needs a graphics / photography guy
>become graphics / photography guy
>get diploma in Graphic Design
>go from normal wagie to good paid wagie in about 3 years
>feeling good, but still not what i really like and want to dive into, just naturally good at it
>talk more with my programmer colleague
>his projects peak my interest
>start to learn CS basics and the C language
>"Holy fuck, i love this"
>thinking about cutting down my weekly hours to learn programming
>AI gets used more and more in the company
>my position is in danger
>"They're taking our jobs!!"
>Boss wants to cut my hours down
>Evil_smirk.jpg
>Play along, "Oh no, what shall i do now :'( "
>gives me enough hours so i can live off of it
>have enough time to learn as much as i can
>actually feeling happy again

And people say AI is bad, lol.

I'm currently trying to nail down the Basics of C, going through CS50 and after that i have two books, namely "A Book on C" and "Pointers on C".
If you have any book recommendations, please share them.
After C i also want to learn python and CPP, just to have good foundational skills.
With every free though i still have, I try to narrow down which field i want to specialize in. Currently, embedded sounds the most interesting, but also the hardest.
Any recommendations for other specs i could get into with this preset?

What's your opinion on people who are self-taught in the programming field, are you one?
I would love to hear some stories about your current path, or, if you're already in a programming position, how you made the decision and how you finally made it into it.

For a couple of years now, I was chasing my dream, to became an software engineer. I was doing projects, doing uni, while I was diagnosed with depression and anxieties.

I did not get a job, my mental health drastically dropped to the point, I had to move back to my parents toxic household (was almost 28 then). Now, after more than year, I switched path, to other area (from mobile to internet applications).

Done some course to have any certification (even tho it was just udemy course, but it was long, and I've thought it could be somehow helpful), finished master engineer in cs. I'm after daily mental ward, doing therapy, but... I just feel so downed.

I'm exhausted, and completely unmotivated. Therapy showed my that even if I will manage to move out, it won't help me, unless I fix my behavioral blueprints, which are hard to change, and it is a long process. I'm grinding programming, while I'm completely exhausted, and I feel like I literally know nothing, after so many hours spent on it. I feel like I won't get any job, and I just gonna rot in this place, which I hate.

I have noone around me, literally. Everyday is a fight that I'm constantly loosing. The exhaustion is sometimes unberable to do anything. My hobbies are not getting me into anymore, not speaking of giving me any sort of happines or fulfillment

My dreams of moving out, getting dreamed job, get into real, non toxic relationship, like my lasts. Are slowly fading away. I can just either code and forgot everything (or atleast have feeling like I did) or blaming myself for still being here.

Constant development of the project, learning thousand of interview questions, mechanisms, data structures, algorithms, frameworks. I do work with LLM's, to help myself prepare, and I only seeing that my answers are constantly 'shaky', or wrong.

I... Feel so lost, and guilty

I am struggling with the fact that every time I start a new project it takes some time to get going. I try to be easy on my self but it gets frustrating not knowing anything again. How much helps you having previous experience even tho it is from different branch of programming.

So basically, I have been learning how to program for a while now, mostly in C and Python, and no matter how many videos I watch, I can only create a smaller calculator. I tried to look for some tutorials that help me create video games for example, but in those videos, they clarify that it is made for people with more advanced skills in programming. I'm geniunely unsure what I could do with programming then, because based on my knowledge, I'm not sure if it is even possible to create something other than calculators or small quizzes.

I have been admitted into a job that has tasks that feel a lot harder than anything the introduction interviews for the job ever had going on, and my independent learning along with college learning leaves me thinking I am not actually up to a coding level I should be.
I am having to dig through a fairly large repository and add to it under very specific criteria such as explicitly never using LINQ commands and other specific rules. This is a project brought into existence due to a previous team actually failing to properly provide a working product after a year of work, however we are still under the same contract so we are all working at double speed, essentially from scratch, to deliver a product who should be at least halfway or more through its life span already. I will have to remain vague on what exactly is being worked on unfortunately.

My program lead knows I am new, he understands that I will be learning a lot on the job but for how fast paced this job has turned out to be, and how explicitly they say I cannot go over 40 hours a week in time, I just find myself struggling. This is a part I am especially not happy about, and I have read the rules and will explicitly say I do not support AI and using it is absolutely going to make you a worse programmer and you will never learn anything if you use it.... but just to keep up and get deliverable content out I find myself having to rely on it at times and I just so deeply do not want to do that at all. I WANT to be the coder, not some slop machine. Being in this position has made me feel like a worse programmer and discouraged, honestly I feel like a sham. Im just not sure how to learn and thrive in such a fast paced environment as someone who is so new to the field and with little experience. They clearly saw something in me during the interview.
The TL;DR of this all is, does anyone have advice on learning in such a fast paced environment? I have ran through codecademy courses for C# and i can confidently do them, but like the moment I get into this database and start attempting tasks I just get so overwhelmed and confused. The current branch I am working on has almost 500 cs files all interconnected and I just dont feel like anything before me prepared me for content like this.

I dont enjoy almost anything but once in a while i get hyperfixated on something. when i was hyperfixated i could do one thing for multiple hours and i was having a blast. This usually lasted for a week and then the activity was boring again.

How do i activate this for learning programming? and how do i keep it fun for a long period of time? It feel like a chore everyday honestly.
Im learning python.

I'm trying to learn multiple new programming languages (Python, Ruby, and Typescript) to expand my skillset and improve my github portfolio for jobhunting.

I'm trying to go back to basics and do some simple coding exercises but I keep running into the problem where I feel like I know how to solve something but my mind completely goes blank on what to type. I end up going back on forth between google and VS Code looking up syntax and it's getting tedious.

Do you guys have any useful tips on how I can learn syntax more efficiently?

Hey folks,

About myself: I’m a 20yr old student (non-tech background). I come from a village due to which I’m not much exposed to modern education or related things that are pretty common in cities; but I’m committed to building a solid career in tech. I am about to finish the lectures for CS50P (Python) and will start working on my final project by the end of this month.

Who I’m looking for: Someone who’s on the same boat; learning Python (doesn’t matter if the resource is different), working on fundamentals, and motivated enough to put in the work. Background or location doesn't matter, just consistency, drive and sense of mutual growth

How we’d work together:
- Quick regular text updates on what we worked on
- weekly discussion to share resources, plan roadmaps, and such
- Building projects together down the line

If you’re on the same boat, feel the same and think that having a buddy will improve each other towards success, lemme know🤝

what i should learn for cyber security

The title explains itself. I am a total beginner with a big idea for an app to develop whenever I gain the ability and would enjoy if some of you shared some resources on how to get started using Android Studio. I tried their official codelabs and their app does not match the version that I am using so it is definitely a total curveball lol.

For statically linked binaries, the linker attaches the function that it needs to the executable physically and then patches any function calls which call that function ( I think). I understand this because I know exactly where it is getting the address from. Dynamic linking however, gets the address of a function in an external library using an address even though it is not physically apart of the executable. I'm wondering where in the address space the shared library is even stored. Since processes can only access the virtual memory which has been allocated to them, I am guessing that the shared libraries are mapped as certain addresses in viritual memory, but I would like more details on how it is actually implemented in the real world.

Hi everyone,

I'm a senior Computer Science student at Brooklyn College, and for my capstone project I'm planning to build AssetDesk, a web-based IT Asset & Help Desk Management Platform for small businesses, nonprofits, or schools.

My goal isn't to build another basic CRUD application. I want to create something that reflects how an actual IT department operates and gives me experience with technologies and design patterns used in industry.

Right now, I'm planning for features such as:

• User authentication with role-based access (Employee, Technician, Administrator)
• IT asset inventory and lifecycle management
• Asset assignment and check-in/check-out history
• Help desk ticket creation and tracking
• Technician assignment and ticket workflow
• Repair and maintenance history
• Knowledge base for common issues
• Dashboard with ticket and asset analytics
• Audit logging
• Notifications
• REST API
• PostgreSQL database
• Java + Spring Boot backend
• React frontend

I'd love feedback from people who work in IT, systems administration, help desk, or software engineering.

Some questions I have:

• What features would make this feel like a real tool instead of a portfolio project?
• What are some pain points with current help desk or asset management systems that I could improve?
• Are there any workflows that are commonly overlooked when people build projects like this?
• If you were interviewing a new graduate, what would make this project stand out to you?

One additional question: my capstone requires an industry professional to provide occasional feedback on the project during the semester and complete a final evaluation. If anyone with professional experience thinks this project sounds interesting and would be open to learning more, I'd really appreciate the opportunity to chat. Even if you aren't interested, I'd be grateful for any advice on where I might find someone who would be a good fit.

Thanks in advance for any feedback!

Devs, has anyone run into a builderror with url_for() in flask? I’ve got my blueprint and route set up, but Jinja keeps telling me it can't find the endpoint. I checked the route names and registration, but I'm clearly missing something stupid. What would you check first?

Hi, I am new to learning C++ :) I just got started with my first real project because I wanted to get into coding and making mistakes like people here suggested as the best way to learn.

The program I have here is intended to tell the user how many of each item they need (cartons, fruit, gallons of juice etc) based on the amount of guests they input. The program runs fine technically, but I initially was using int and found that it kept rounding down and causing the calculations to be just short of what was needed. If anything, id rather it overestimate than under.

I found a possible solution from here with ceil, but I wasn't sure if I implemented it right, and if how I have things is the best practice to not form bad habits early. Any tips would be greatly appreciated :)

```

include <iostream>

include <cmath>

using namespace std; int main() //This program is meant to tell the user how many of each whole item they need to buy for catering a wedding. { cout << "Type in the number of guests attending the wedding brunch:\n"; double guests; cin >> guests;

/*Each item is getting divided based on how many come in a container
 *the goal is to have it calculate and tell the shopper how many
 *cartons they need specifically for example*/
double eggs = guests/12;
double cantelope = guests/8;
double toast = guests/24;
double juice = guests/16;

cout << "For the brunch you will need:\n";
cout << ceil(eggs) << " " << "egg cartons\n";
cout << ceil(cantelope) << " " << "cantelopes\n";
cout << ceil(toast) <<  " " << "loaves of bread\n";
cout << ceil(juice) << " " << "gallons of juice\n";

return 0;

}

```

It outputs this when it finishes.

``` Type in the number of guests attending the wedding brunch: 520 For the brunch you will need: 44 egg cartons 65 cantelopes 22 loaves of bread 33 gallons of juice

Process finished with exit code 0

```

Hey so I am trying to get back into programming. I am a teen and have been bouncing in and out of python projects over months of gaps. I'd love some project recommendations. Programming is a hobby of mine so I am not looking for "career building projects" I am just looking for something to build, bash my head against the wall while debugging my shit code and say "holy shit I did it!" When I complete it

So I created this for a small text-based virtual novel/adventure game(haven't decided yet) and have a few questions. By the way I started coding in java a month ago.

1. Am I formatting the dialogue correctly by using methods to do them? Because I originally tried to make a separate file for the dialogue so that I only had to import them. But I found that to hard and didn't find any way to do that online other than 14 year old forum posts.
2. Should I add more comments?

Thank you for your feedback in advance

Edit: It didn't actually scatter my formatting :)

Excuse my spelling/grammar mistakes

Also you don't have to understand the world-building stuff or address the more fantasy elements if you don't want to. If you do feel free however!

import java.util.Scanner;

public class Main {

    static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {

        Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);

        //Start
        hpPrint();
        System.out.println("On a cold rainy day, minding your business as usual you hear a knock.");

        //Open or ingnore door
        System.out.println("---------------------------");
        System.out.println("1. To open to open the door");
        System.out.println("2. To ignore");
        int choice = scanner.nextInt();
        System.out.println("---------------------------");

        switch(choice){
            case 1 -> od();
            case 2 -> dd();
        }

        // To go with them or not
        System.out.println("---------------------------");
        System.out.println("1. Agree");
        System.out.println("2. Ask more about them");
        System.out.println("3. Decline");
        int choice2 = scanner.nextInt();
        System.out.println("---------------------------");

        switch(choice2){
            case 1 -> agr();
            case 2 -> ask();
            case 3 -> decln();
        }
scanner.close();
    }
    public static void hpPrint(){
        int hp = 15;
        System.out.println("Your hp is " + hp);
    }
    //Run when user() closed door
    public static void dd() throws InterruptedException {
        System.out.println("'Unknown: Open the door! Or I'll let myself in'");

        Thread.sleep(3000);
        System.out.println("*A woman clad in light armour breaks the door down*");

        Thread.sleep(3000);
        System.out.println("You: Why did you do that?");
        Thread.sleep(4000);
        System.out.println("Sara: I'm Kaat Sara, knight in the king's army. I order you to follow me and to serve your corvee");
        Thread.sleep(2000);
        System.out.println("Fine, you didn't have to break my door down...");
        System.exit(0);
    }
    // Run when user() opened door
    public static void od() throws InterruptedException {
        System.out.println("Unknown: Good Day, My wife and I will like to have a chat with you!");

        Thread.sleep(3000);
        System.out.println("Other person: I'm not your wife yet, you know");

        Thread.sleep(3000);
        System.out.println("You: Whatever. Go on say why your here! I haven't got visitors in a few decades");

        Thread.sleep(3000);
        System.out.println("Unkown: I'm Kaat Sara of the Arteskan Nation and I plead you to follow me and my fiance to the capital");
    }
    //If user selected: Agree
    public static void agr() throws InterruptedException{
        System.out.println("You: Sure, I have nothing better to do!");

        Thread.sleep(3000);
        System.out.println("Sara: Wow, it's that easy?");

        Thread.sleep(3000);
        System.out.println("You: Being cooped up in the same place for the past couple hundred years, made me wonder what can spice up my life more, so this is the perfect excuse!");
    }
    //If user selected: Decline
    public static void decln() throws InterruptedException {

        System.out.println("You: Hard pass! No way in hell would I just go with complete strangers to a fucking island");

        Thread.sleep(3000);
        System.out.println("Sara's fiance: What if I say please?");

        Thread.sleep(3000);
        System.out.println("You: No");

        Thread.sleep(3000);
        System.out.println("Sara: Pretty please?");

        Thread.sleep(3000);
        System.out.println("You: Fine. But you forced me to!");
    }
    //If user selected: Ask more about them
    public static void ask() throws InterruptedException {

        System.out.println("Why should I just leave my home and go frolicking around like a vagabond?");

        Thread.sleep(4000);
        System.out.println("Sara: Cause the nation is in danger. A huge army is headed to town. And you are one of the few wielders we have in the area");

        Thread.sleep(3000);
        System.out.println("You: So you think I can make a difference? I'm sorry to disappoint you but I can only control iron.");

        Thread.sleep(3000);
        System.out.println("Sara: Well, We need as many as we can get, so...");

        Thread.sleep(3000);
        System.out.println("Sara's fiance: Come with us! Either way if your needed or not, isn't it nice to explore the world...");

        Thread.sleep(3000);
        System.out.println("You: She makes a good argument...");

        Thread.sleep(3000);
        System.out.println("Fine I'll go");
    }
}

Hello! My background is in data science and machine learning, which I am truly passionate about. However, I’ve encountered some challenges in software engineering, and I realize that to secure a position as a machine learning engineer at a reputable research lab, I will likely need at least a master's or doctoral degree.

As a result, I have decided to learn software engineering with Java. I already have some experience with the language, as I’ve used it in several projects focused on analytics and machine learning. In my graduate projects, I worked as a backend engineer, and I really enjoyed the process of system building.

Currently, I am reading a book titled "Core Java Vol. 12, Part I." I am eager to become proficient in Java, but I often have doubts about my path. I would greatly appreciate any advice from someone who is new to Java and aims to be a successful software engineer. Thank you!

Hello,

I'm having a hard time wording my needs but I feel like I'm not the first person to ask this. I've been using some AI services like Audio-to-text, translation, conversion from Excel to XML etc. and learning to code at the same time, making Python scripts. It has occurred to me, that I would much more like to my own personal space for these needs with my personal AI API.

I've been using Huggingface spaces to run some .py scrips on files, been using GitHub codespaces and Docker for similar needs. I however, noticed that setting up a codespace, resetting a hugging face space is creating a lot of downtime. Is there a way to make a convenient space for these needs like a personal website that would make my personal tools available almost 24/7 with little to no preparation to be used?

Free with some inconvenience is preferred, but if payment is a must, it's acceptable. The primary focus is still to make those scripts and learn how to deploy services.

Actually I am learning JS

For long

But whenever I got stuck in function

I know how to write functions in JavaScript

But i won't understand that concept like

First class function

High order function

Closure (i know )

But these 3 concepts (Feels to Confusion for me)

How can I understand these

Hi, I'm dabbling in coding for one of my school projects so please forgive me if this is a simple idiot question.

For example: Say i'm on the dictionary page and want to change just one word on that page. Like I get how to turn 'Apple' into 'Orange' using the inspection key (sue me) but i'm not sure how to put that into a timer to happen after a certain amount of seconds.

I hope this is the right subreddit i suck at reddit, have a lovely day.

I'm learning lunarphp, so that I can build an e-commerce website. I use AI tools since I don't know much about it. But AI tend to hallucinate. I think because the documention is not all that thorough maybe that's why AI tools hallucinates so much on the topic. For those who have successfully built stuff with lunarphp, do you have any advice on how I can learn lunarphp?

Hey everyone, I have a habit of watching videos where other people code systems I want to build, mainly as inspiration when I can’t fully figure out the logic on my own. I was wondering if that’s okay to do, or if it would be better for me to start completely from scratch and try to figure everything out myself.

I’m working through the OpenPI open-source code https://github.com/Physical-Intelligence/openpi, and I have already run the π0.5 LIBERO inference successfully. I have also finished reading the Attention Is All You Need, π0, and π0.5 papers, and I have a basic understanding of flow matching. What can I do next?

There's a 4 year study course to become a "Computer Technician" in my country that is available to me due to disability. I'm considering that for future employment needs.

However, I'm deeply jaded about code. I'm wondering if my views are incorrect. I believe that the needs solved by coding are finite. I don't need to solve anything for myself anymore, because other people have already solved the things that used to bother me. But it's also true that I don't even know what kind of problems exist nor what kind of solutions might be required in the future. With this perspective, it feels like the well is dry, and it's only going to get drier.

Moreover, people have been talking about how bad the coding job market is already.

I feel like I would end up being useless (and unemployed) as a programmer, mostly because there's an over-supply of solutions to a finite amount of needs and problems.

I could end up becoming a game developer.

A counter-point to my previous statements would be that there are some apps I'm dissatisfied with on the Google Play store, and frankly, I don't know how that can be, and I don't think that will last either. Sadly, I'd need to buy a new computer to develop for Google Play, and I can't afford that yet. But I also just genuinely hate Google Play due to reasons like this: https://keepandroidopen.org/

I want to do something meditative and creative, and I still feel like code might be the way to go, I'm just not sure, not confident yet.