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Linux and mac are preferable in that that’s what most industry uses, but for most popular languages windows works fine. Just start coding! 
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Last time I coded was on PC Turing. I’m sure this stuff will hold no surprises for me!
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Mar 23, 2020 04:01
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I use Git Bash on windows its obviously gonna still be running windows programs but it means the basic syntax is gonna be the same as on linux
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Mar 23, 2020 04:17
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Is it possible to learn enough Javascript and html in 4 or so months to have a basic enough skillset for employment? Or is it something that requires as associates degree-level of commitment?
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Mar 23, 2020 05:38
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Speaking of linux on windows, there is also an Ubuntu app in the windows store that lets you run linux command line utilities in windows. You could use that to start playing around. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/ubuntu-1804-lts/9n9tngvndl3q?activetab=pivot:overviewtab But to echo others, you don't need linux to start coding.
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Mar 23, 2020 06:38
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If you can run commands on Windows, you could grab Docker and easily be able to play around with a ton of cool things like Linux. Probably quicker to get up and running than trying to install Ubuntu on a separate hard drive or usb stick. e: ^ didn’t realize you could easily get Ubuntu through the Microsoft store these days. I avoid that thing like the plague, but you do you goons 
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Mar 23, 2020 07:00
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Cloud computing services like AWS let you create linux instances and fiddle around with them for free in some cases and you can learn alot just fiddling around. If you break something terribly you can just make a new instance and start over
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Mar 23, 2020 07:09
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kloa posted:If you can run commands on Windows, you could grab Docker and easily be able to play around with a ton of cool things like Linux. The ubuntu package there is I think the Windows Linux subsystem, which is more than just command line utilities. It's pretty much a full blown Linux instance running within Windows (with a few things removed for interoperability). As far as I know you still need Windows 10 Pro to run docker because home doesn't provide virtualization. What is linked above still provides plenty of tools to code.
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Mar 23, 2020 11:15
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I wish my brain worked on this lol, I took a whole rear end python course and barely learned a thing
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Mar 23, 2020 12:38
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DrPossum posted:The ubuntu package there is I think the Windows Linux subsystem, which is more than just command line utilities. It's pretty much a full blown Linux instance running within Windows (with a few things removed for interoperability). Ah that’s a good thing to note about WinPro. You can get legit keys from goons in SA Mart for a steal, but sounds like that Ubuntu package is a better for beginners to dip their toes in.
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Mar 23, 2020 14:58
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ANUSTART posted:I wish my brain worked on this lol, I took a whole rear end python course and barely learned a thing but you enjoyed yourself right? i might take the rear end python course myself
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Mar 23, 2020 15:01
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I get lot more out of projects than tutorials. Its hard to know why you would want to do anything until you are presented with a situation that you need to do that thing. If you cant think of a project you can google like “hentaidownloader github” and play around with someone elses project
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Mar 23, 2020 23:47
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Hammerite posted:but you enjoyed yourself right? i might take the rear end python course myself When I got something working, yeah I enjoyed it. I just had a hard time with it. My brain struggled.
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Mar 23, 2020 23:53
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I've gotta pick a place to start if I wanna learn some of this, there are so many places to start. I guess python is the one to start with that has some practicality and isn't too low level computer madness?
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Mar 23, 2020 23:56
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Caesar Saladin posted:I've gotta pick a place to start if I wanna learn some of this, there are so many places to start. I guess python is the one to start with that has some practicality and isn't too low level computer madness? Python is great but Javascript has the lowest barrier to entry on getting something done (anything at all). Check out my advice on starting from nothing but a browser: Analytic Engine posted:What is JavaScript? (JS)
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Mar 24, 2020 00:27
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Analytic Engine posted:Python is great but Javascript has the lowest barrier to entry on getting something done (anything at all). Check out my advice on starting from nothing but a browser: If you not only have a browser but also an Internet connection you can run Python from your browser, e.g. at https://repl.it/languages/python3: pre:Python 3.8.1 (default, Feb 2 2020, 08:37:37) > goons = 420 > goons = goons * 69 > print(goons) 28980 walla 
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Mar 24, 2020 03:09
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So the goverment put out a programing course for all ages, im working on learning how scratch works edit: also if i wanted to learn what is the best way? what should i read? Zeta Acosta fucked around with this message at 04:22 on Mar 24, 2020 |
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Mar 24, 2020 03:39
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I've been doing the python 'automate the boring stuff' thing and I'm learning regular expressions. I feel like a wizard this is great. I found this site to practice writing regular expression on if anyone wants that - http://play.inginf.units.it/#/ Zeta Acosta posted:So the goverment put out a programing course for all ages, im working on learning how scratch works What's the site? US government?
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Mar 26, 2020 03:13
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- hi
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Mar 26, 2020 03:43
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Nice, that super cool. It’s a good thing to get in on while you’ve got time.
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Mar 26, 2020 03:50
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Yeah im doing some things in scratch like giving instructions to some images so they can do their thingss
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Mar 26, 2020 03:59
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When I knuckled down and learned regex i felt like the worlds smartest human
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Mar 26, 2020 06:44
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i studied something useless like political science, whats the best way to change careers and start learning code to actually start makin money?
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Mar 26, 2020 07:15
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regex is extremely dark magic known to only a few graybeard coders toiling away in their wizard towers.
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Mar 26, 2020 07:38
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Regex is absolutely worth learning. So many hard problems immediately become trivial.
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Mar 26, 2020 08:30
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Regex are very good to know. I avoid them whenever possible
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Mar 26, 2020 08:35
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You're not truly a regex wizard until you've cursed the fact that whatever tool you're using doesn't use PCRE (Perl-Compatible Regular Expressions) but instead has some inferior regular expression library that doesn't support negative lookbehind assertions. Okay, I lied, I don't actually know what the rules are for becoming a regex wizard.
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Mar 26, 2020 09:42
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yoloer420 posted:Regex is absolutely worth learning. So many hard problems immediately become trivial. Could you give me some examples of hard problems that are trivial with regex? I'm trying to convince myself to finally learn them and it might help me motivate.
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Mar 26, 2020 09:55
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Tip posted:Could you give me some examples of hard problems that are trivial with regex? I'm trying to convince myself to finally learn them and it might help me motivate. No regex; ok split the string, search for occurrences of a specific substring, check that it occurs the right amount of times, check by index that it doesn't occur after a special character, slice it out Regex: Parse a string drat that's a fine looking substring Assign it
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Mar 26, 2020 10:08
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I found this file format that was for storing poker game histories and had to translate ot from huge blocks of numbers and dashes into poker games. It looked like a single massive block of 4-6-9-5-8-5-3-5-9-0-77-5-3-6-8-8-88-8-9-42 etc for pages and pages. I cracked some of the code and was able to use regex to isolate patterns that could only be one thing. Like decimal numbers were always bet sizes, or a number between 1 and 13 followed by a number between 1 and 4 was probably representing a card. Over a weekend I had code that could translate it all to english and I think even though ill never use it for anything it was my proudest coding moment
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Mar 26, 2020 10:34
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sed (replacement) and grep (search) are really powerful with regex Ever do a find and replace in a text editor? Well now you can perform find and replace through a remote terminal connection to things like a Raspberry Pi that don’t have GUIs. Need to find a specific pattern but only after it has occurred at least once already (finding duplicate data)? Easy. Verify (or find incorrect) data such as phone, zip code, credit card, email, and other entries? Can do.
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Mar 26, 2020 15:04
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This looks great
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Debuggex is an amazing tool for working with regexes. Use it.Buttcoin purse posted:You're not truly a regex wizard until you've cursed the fact that whatever tool you're using doesn't use PCRE (Perl-Compatible Regular Expressions) but instead has some inferior regular expression library that doesn't support negative lookbehind assertions. dads friend steve posted:Regex are very good to know. I avoid them whenever possible This is the mark of a regex wizard.
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Mar 26, 2020 15:48
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If you're visually-oriented, I heartily suggest Unity/C#. Despite the screeching you may hear in response to this post, I think C# is a great language, and Unity provides tools that allow you to create great stuff with relatively little effort.
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When it comes to writing Python-callable modules in other languages that are as fast as possible, should I be looking at C, C++, or something else? I've been working in Python 3 for about 2 years now and am looking to branch out, both for general learning and for performance for certain tasks. I currently only know Python. While we're at it, how does the learning curve for C++ compare to C? ultrafilter posted:Debuggex is an amazing tool for working with regexes. Use it. Zugzwang fucked around with this message at 16:15 on Mar 26, 2020 |
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Mar 26, 2020 16:11
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C is quicker to learn because it's a very simple language, but from the standpoint of a Python programmer it doesn't have a standard library, so there's going to be a lot of work involved in anything you want to do. C++ is beyond the capability of any single person to understand, but once you've got enough down it's much easier to do things. Both languages have static typechecking and expose a lot of implementation details, so either way you're going to have an adjustment to make. I'd recommend starting with a modern introduction to C++. The folks in the C/C++ thread will have good recommendations.
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Mar 26, 2020 16:20
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ultrafilter posted:C is quicker to learn because it's a very simple language, but from the standpoint of a Python programmer it doesn't have a standard library, so there's going to be a lot of work involved in anything you want to do. C++ is beyond the capability of any single person to understand, but once you've got enough down it's much easier to do things. Both languages have static typechecking and expose a lot of implementation details, so either way you're going to have an adjustment to make.
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Zugzwang posted:When it comes to writing Python-callable modules in other languages that are as fast as possible, should I be looking at C, C++, or something else? I've been working in Python 3 for about 2 years now and am looking to branch out, both for general learning and for performance for certain tasks. I currently only know Python. I think you will want to be looking at C. https://docs.python.org/3.8/extending/extending.html You can also check out something like Numba where you can use just-in-time compiling on frequently used python functions that can speed them up a lot.
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I'm gonna try to use javascript to create some dynamic flashcards for practicing guitar, that seems like a manageable first project.
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SubnormalityStairs posted:If you're visually-oriented, I heartily suggest Unity/C#. Despite the screeching you may hear in response to this post, I think C# is a great language, and Unity provides tools that allow you to create great stuff with relatively little effort. In my opinion its the most fun way to learn
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