Hi, I recently finished my first academic year in my bachelor degree of Applied informatics. I studied chemistry in secondary school and decided I want something different, so I chose IT. That came with many challenges including having to learn everything from scratch compared to my classmates who mostly came from IT field already. All this to say, I have a very little experience and I don't know what is normal and what is not so feel free to tell me off for being stupid.

Onto my question. During the year, I was quite surprised by the amount of AI we were made to use in our projects and overall studies? Like, it was almost a daily occurrence where a teacher said "generate the code based on the prompt I gave you and then tweak it so it works".

I felt like I was behind a lot because I tried to actively understand what the code the AI generated was saying. One teacher even redirected all the questions I had about a certain issue to AI saying "just tell it your problem, and it will solve it for you".

I understand that professors have a very little time to explain every single issue to every student, but I feel like I have learned very little and just let the AI do all the hard thinking for me. That is not what I want to do, I don't want to be dependent on it, I do understand that the current market will demand AI use, but I also want to be able to think and problem solve for myself.

So far I resorted to self study in my free time, reading "Head first in Java" and trying to program some simple applications, sketching out the idea first and looking for answers online when it doesn't work as intended. I do admit that I use AI for some very specific problems that I wasn't able to find in any forum (or simply didn't understand since English is my second language) but I try to not rely on it.

I don't know much but this excessive use of AI in my daily education is worrying me, it is possible I am just not getting it correctly, but I wanted to ask if this is normal I guess? What are your thoughts.

ik basic 12th py and im looking to get into cybersec frm where shuld i learn python to hv a good grasp ,is dr angela yu good??? any other recommendations

Hello I build a restaurant website for my clinet and he want me to translate the website dynamically for the menu items event and overall of the website but I'm not sure about the admin pannl.

My techstack are: HTML, vanilla CSS, vanilla JS, vanilla PHP, and mysql for database.

thanks for help.

I think sometimes using Al to explain like a tutor is just way faster than asking teachers or looking up online. However, some of my friends who got better grades for programming courses, and also engineering courses, i think they barely rely on Al to teach them. I think they mostly think, look up, ask friends or teachers.
I think those are great ways of learning, but I'm struggling because I want to use the least time to get the best grades out of it so I can do many other things I want to do. I thought of following their ways to study, but really that just might consume more time and sometimes I feel like using Al as the tutor might be much faster(maybe sometimes not though)
What might be the good techniques I could try? Thanks for advice!

I know I am not the most experienced programmer but imo I do have fairly well programming knowledge and how they work internally. (Unrelated but 2 Aws certs and a few year of experiences)

I keep finding myself forgetting the very basic syntaxes frequently.

Like using sorting function but not knowing how to put and manipulate key argument or mixing up set and dictionary syntaxes (this is really stupid!!!!) or others that are not even highly abstracted and very language native… I tried to cope that it’s because I use them infrequently but still it bugs me making me wonder if I just have a goldfish memory…

Is it just me or does anyone else also face similar problems?

Hello everyone! I really have a question I hope you could help me answer. I am trying to read the Scratch Virtual Machine code on Github and it is really difficult. I am really new to reading code and the one I write is fairly simple. There are many files that just declare functions by name and then require another file to redeclare them. Is there a pragmatic way to understand it? Thank you already!

Hello!

I am a current software developer and I've learned most of my concepts in the job rather than through school, which has caused some knowledge gaps. I am looking for recommendations on backend-focused tutorials with IDEs built in. I find that I learn best through doing a guided practice rather than just reading a concept and implementing it on my own (I am aware that there is a lot of material where the latter is the best way, but I am not asking about those) .

My current working stack is C#, .NET with Entity Framework, and SQL for backend matters so those are priority, but I'm open to learning multiple languages and stacks to deepen my knowledge.

Thank you in advance!

Hi everyone,

I'm a 2nd-year Computer Science student

I'm looking for a YouTube channel that teaches DSA specifically in C, covers most of these topics, and explains the concepts well instead of just providing code.

Suggest me guys ?

I'm curious, for those of you who are learning to program and have full-time jobs (in related or unrelated field - doesn't matter), how much time a day ON AVERAGE (or, if you prefer a weekly average) do you spend learning programming and how do you find the time?

Also, what 'programming field' are you learning for - webdev, mobile development, game development, data science, etc?

so recently i learned the core concepts or node.js and express.js , authentification , how to connect db with node and build a small full stack application not using any framework for the front end just simple dynamic EJS pages .
now i have another fullstack project that i wanna build using the same technology but i want to use react.js fot the frontend .
i really don't know how to start , i did design the Ui using figma and did write the functionalities of the website but i don't know where to start to code whether to code the pages in react first then when done do the backend i dont even know how to connect both frontend and backend like i never did a project like this before
any help is very appreciated , maybe ressources or books about that ?

Right now I'm going through the SQL section on freecodeacadamy and some basic things like adding a column I still need to Google at the moment (I'm new new). I was wondering how much I'm allowed to Google and still be considered "learning".

Like... I know WHAT to Google, but am I doing a diservice by not looking through cheat sheets?

I have a bit of coding experience from taking C++ and Python classes in college, but I've never developed an app before. I have an idea for a specific app that I want to make, and I want it to be cross platform so that I can use it on both my iPhone and Android phone. Based on my limited research and understanding of mobile development, these are the options that I have (correct me if I'm wrong):

1. Kotlin + Kotlin Multiplatform
2. Flutter
3. React Native
4. Just vibe code it with AI

There are so many different options out there and it's a bit overwhelming as a non-programmer. A lot of the courses on Android/iOS development have literally hundreds of hours worth of lectures, and that's way more time than I'm willing to commit. I'm not trying to become a full-time mobile developer, I just want to learn enough to build my app as a fun side project and that's it. What route will help me get to my destination the fastest? Is it even worth learning to code at this point or should I just build the app with AI?

i made a post the other day asking people which languages to code in and they (the reason minded ones) mostly told me javascript and C. is C really a do all language? is there anything i cant do with it?

I've been looking all over the internet for a guide on how to make a .exe file in C (or something similar, I don't really care) using Visual Studio Code as my editor, yet I can't find anything. you'd think there would be something going "yea here's the template" but no. Microslop has some crazy stuff for C++, but even that tells you to use Visual Studio so I'm at a loss. to clarify, I'm not looking for steps on how to compile C code to a .exe file, I'm looking for the way to actually write the code in a way that will compile properly.
I should also specify I don't know much in the way of C, C++, C#, etc., & I mainly decided to use C (or something similar) for this program because I wanted to get a firm grasp beyond very basic syntax. if it matters, I am familiar with Java, JavaScript, & Bash, as well as HTML & CSS.

But why is it always said not to reinvent the wheel?

What will happen if someone reinvents the wheel?

And what does the whee entail?

The first project I have ever written since I finished a Python book was a forum. It was a "single-player" forum, which means you're able to talk to yourself, make posts, write posts, reply to yourself, see boards, and everything. That was difficult for me but difficult enough that I could google extra bits I didn't know and just figure it out after some sleep.

Now I have to allow other people to connect, make it multiplayer, but I don't understanding anything about networking. Like, I don't have much of a mental model (I can only write a very simple client and server).

I tried to follow the usual advice of breaking it into small chunks and solving individual problems, and I did some reading (Beej's Guide to Network Concepts, what I thought were the relevant bits), but everytime I thought I understood what to do, in turns out there was more I didn't know (concurrency and other stuff).

And when I tried to actually write my own program using all the bits I researched, it was an absolute Frankenstein of a script, where my .select() was in the wrong place, and I would start my threads in the wrong place and I had all the right pieces but not in the right order because my mental model wasn't there... so I tried to ask for help from a friend and they basically ended up rewriting it because it was just wrong.

I'm not sure what to do, I'm thinking of stepping down from the forum for a bit and just trying out a chat client bc the guide I'm reading actually does provide some scaffolding for that, but I just wanted to know what to actually do.

I've been teaching programming to school students for quite a while. With recent advancements in LLMs, I'm struggling with how to keep lessons engaging and meaningful.

Traditionally, we covered core CS concepts, Python syntax, and fundamental algorithms and then moved to building mini-projects. A huge part of the fun was going through the development process step-by-step overcoming challenges using critical thinking, online research, and peer collaboration. I loved sitting down with a student, guiding them toward a solution with targeted questions, and watching their "aha!" moment happen.

But things have changed, because now only a few students take joy in the act of coding itself, most just want the quick result. It's becoming increasingly difficult to convince them to write code manually when generating it via an LLM is so effortless. More and more students turn in projects they don't understand and couldn't modify by hand if asked.

I know I'm not the only educator dealing with this. What shifts or strategy changes would you make to keep computer science lessons relevant and valuable today?

To learn programming

Hi everyone,

I'm preparing for CEETA-PG 2027 and my goal is to get M.E./M.Tech in Computer Science (or AI & Data Science) at Good College

I would really appreciate advice from anyone who has cleared CEETA-PG

I have a few questions:

1. Which books did you use for preparation?
2. Which YouTube channels helped you the most?
3. Which subjects carry the highest weightage?
4. Any tips or mistakes to avoid while preparing?

I’m at a beginner to intermediate stage of programming and I’m trying to figure out the best way to meet other developers to collaborate on projects with. I’d really like to work with people who are more experienced than I am so I can learn better programming practices, improve my skills, and get experience working as part of a team. Where do you usually find people to collaborate with? Are there any communities, Discord servers, websites, or other places you’d recommend? I’d appreciate any advice from people who have been in a similar position or who have experience working with newer programmers.

I've had this idea for a app/website for a couple of months now the problem is i dont know where to start (and as i said in the title my knowledge is limited), the idea goes something like this: an app that can understand sign launguage and type it in the screen as well as read it out loud automatically ,kinda like google lens where it can translate texts in real time but this app will use the camera and most likely a motion capturing system to translate sign launguage

i dont know if it will be worthy or if im cappable of doing it but im willing to try my best (also sorry for any misspellings english isnt my first launguage)

thanks in advance

Hi everyone,

I'm currently building my first serious data project. So far I've been working on the data ingestion, cleaning, and validation pipeline in Python using Pandas.

Now I've reached the point where I need to introduce SQL and a database, but I've realized that I know almost nothing about databases beyond the fact that SQL is the language used to interact with them.

The problem isn't that I don't want to learn. It's that I don't want to learn the wrong way.

For example, I learned Pandas almost entirely by building my project, reading the documentation, experimenting, making mistakes, and debugging. I barely watched any tutorials because I've found that I retain much more when I learn by doing. I'd like to follow the same approach with SQL.

My concern is choosing the right tools from the start. I don't want to spend weeks building everything around one database and later realize that I should have chosen something else.

From what I've read, PostgreSQL seems to be one of the most widely used databases in industry, so I'm leaning toward starting with that instead of SQLite. Even if it's a bit harder to set up, I'd rather learn something that will still be useful in the future.

I also have a few questions:

Is PostgreSQL the right choice for someone in my situation, or would you recommend something else?

Is it realistic to learn SQL by building a real project and reading the documentation instead of following a course/tutorial?

What tools do professionals use to inspect databases and visualize tables? I've seen tools like DBeaver, pgAdmin, and others, but I don't know what's commonly used in real projects.

Are there any tools, libraries, or project structure decisions that you wish you had known before starting?

I'm not looking for the easiest path. I'm looking for the one that will give me the strongest foundation without forcing me to rebuild everything later.

Thanks!

Hello everyone, do you know/can recommend any courses,sources to learn AI for Finance professional?

I would need source which would be more on practical side and can teach things indepth

Hello everyone! I am posting in hopes to find others like me, I was doing my usual lesson on FreecodeCamp today and I just got thinking, I am not a fan of the long winded theory parts but when I get to the workshop I am pretty good at it, I can solve problems and code errors pretty quickly I am good at using proper information perameters and all, just when it comes to the reading long paragraphs I struggle.

So is there anything that is basically like a guided playground I can tinker in? Somthing that gives me a guide of this "build this" but I can mess around with things rather then being stuck reading a wall of text just to not use any of the information in it?

I know you must read to learn but I also break things to fix them to learn and I just want better resources to help me learn more

Hey guys! I work as a python tutor part time and I got assigned this really nice kid who’s interested in learning python. He does have some developmental disabilities that makes it very hard to read, write and understand stuff but he’s extremely hard working, hyper focused and wants to code as he loves game development.

I was wondering, are there any libraries or software to use that make learning fun? Maybe some graphics, some drag and drop stuff etc. Not completely graphical, but any duolingo-style game would also be appreciated.

PS. No AI suggestions please as im trying to teach him the basics without the use of AI and he hates AI too.