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DONT THREAD ON ME
Oct 1, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo
Floss Finder
et’s face it: We’d all like to have more programming knowledge. But why should you invest the time and energy into actually learning to code? Here are eight reasons that will convince you.

1. You get to italicize text without having to call a professional: One of the most basic perks of coding is that you immediately learn to italicize all the text you want just as good as any professional. This could save you hundreds of dollars every year.

2. Potential employers will start jumping in front of your car: With a valuable skill like coding, you’ll notice a sharp uptick in potential employers immediately throwing themselves in front of your vehicle. Just another advantage of being a programmer!

3. You get to spend more time with your computer: That feeling! Your chair pressing against your body, the fingers of both of your hands colliding with great pleasure against alphabet-themed keys. There’s nothing better, and when you’re a coder, you have an excuse to do it all the time.

4. Doctors will treat you like an equal: When you meet a physician or surgeon and tell them how you perform the computer surgery, they will look you in the eye, shake your hand, and say, “Continue doing your noble work, peer.”

5. You will understand what’s happened when your banking info is stolen: While others will be left in the dark wondering how hackers managed to rip off their life savings, you will know exactly how it was done and be able to explain it to your loved ones.

6. You will meet girls with colored hair: If you’re sorely lacking in female acquaintances with neon red, blue, or green hair, learning to code will be a great way to finally introduce them into your social circle.

7. You will be able to run 3D simulations of a praying mantis getting smashed by a Bible: Have you ever wondered what it would look like if a praying mantis got smashed by a Bible? If you learn to code, you can use the power of the computer to create highly accurate 3D simulations depicting this dream scenario.

8. You can code Theresa back to life: It has to be possible. It is possible. Yes, she may have a machine mind and a code body, but it will be the same Theresa, the same one, just the same. Yes, everything exactly as it always was. Ah, Theresa, soon, soon…

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pram
Jun 10, 2001
lol

kliksf
Jan 1, 2003
github flamewars

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer
a real coder would have made the list numbered 0 to 7

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer
Little b (programming language)

RBC
Nov 23, 2007

IM STILL SPENDING MONEY FROM 1888
you can make terrible threads in yospos that wont get gassed no matter how bad they are

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

College Slice

Valeyard posted:

a real coder would have made the list numbered 0 to 7

no a *real* coder would have numbered it from 0000 to 1000 you n00b scrub poseur

JewKiller 3000
Nov 28, 2006

by Lowtax

you got a little d

big scary monsters
Sep 2, 2011

-~Skullwave~-
Make Machines Do Your Bidding With This One Simple Trick Computers Don't Want You To Know!

suffix
Jul 27, 2013

Wheeee!

MALE SHOEGAZE posted:

7. You will be able to run 3D simulations of a praying mantis getting smashed by a Bible: Have you ever wondered what it would look like if a praying mantis got smashed by a Bible? If you learn to code, you can use the power of the computer to create highly accurate 3D simulations depicting this dream scenario.

link, please

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?
as a programming knower I can confirm all of these

Flat Daddy
Dec 3, 2014

by Nyc_Tattoo
i think they stole #3 from no they will not.

Space-Pope
Aug 13, 2003

by zen death robot

MALE SHOEGAZE posted:

4. Doctors will treat you like an equal: When you meet a physician or surgeon and tell them how you perform the computer surgery, they will look you in the eye, shake your hand, and say, “Continue doing your noble work, peer.”
wanna see the computer version of "the knick" complete with gut-wrenching scenes of cobweb-infested cases

bobbilljim
May 29, 2013

this christmas feels like the very first christmas to me
:shittydog::shittydog::shittydog:
my mind drifted off after abotu number 4 and i started thinkign of some miniature hoirses playign in a field but good thread anyway OP

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan
clickhole is really good

CamH
Apr 11, 2008

yo i have tried explaining this on several occasions


Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
if you learn to code you can code your own operating system!

Wild EEPROM
Jul 29, 2011


oh, my, god. Becky, look at her bitrate.
You know all of those "science enthusiasts" who loving love science and neil degrasse tyson?

just do that but for funy computer

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indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?
I'd like to hear more about this alphabet-themed keyboard

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