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On the whole learn to program thing. What would you learn? I'm trying Python at the moment. Can't do anything useful yet...
 
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czc said:
On the whole learn to program thing. What would you learn? I'm trying Python at the moment. Can't do anything useful yet...
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That's a tough one. I learned to program so many years ago when there weren't that many choices. Javascript is probably a good option because you can do it right in the browser but it's not the easiest in the world to learn.

https://www.codecademy.com/learn/javascript
(I don't think it's necessary to pay for the pro version)

But there are so many guides and tutorials out there. I don't know which one one would start with.

There are even ones for kids:

http://www.crunchzilla.com/code-monster
 
What a way to start the day;



... drop the kid off at school






... DRIVE AWAY










.... DRIVE OVER A BIG BUMP WHICH WAS NEVER THERE BEFORE









...... SEE THE DOG I JUST DROVE OVER IN THE REAR VIEW MIRROR








.... OWNER COME RUNNING OUT IN TEARS AND WE WATCH AS THE DOG BLEEDS OUT
 
BeoTeK said:
What a way to start the day;



... drop the kid off at school






... DRIVE AWAY










.... DRIVE OVER A BIG BUMP WHICH WAS NEVER THERE BEFORE









...... SEE THE DOG I JUST DROVE OVER IN THE REAR VIEW MIRROR








.... OWNER COME RUNNING OUT IN TEARS AND WE WATCH AS THE DOG BLEEDS OUT
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Bonus for artistic impression!? Splatter Bonus!? Too soon?
 
czc said:
On the whole learn to program thing. What would you learn? I'm trying Python at the moment. Can't do anything useful yet...
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Depends on what you want to do with it, I'd say. Python is nice, as it's very powerful with great libraries, which makes it useful in a lot of fields. I learned the basics ages ago in Turbo Pascal, and once the basics are instilled, it's quite a bit easier to jump into a new language. Then I learned QBasic at home, a little C++ and delphi at high school, then Matlab at varsity. Since then, I learned some python so that could draw pretty matlab like graphs without shelling out loads for a matlab license, VBA so that I can write macro's for our CAD program, and Java on my boss' insistence to run our machines, to avoid legacy issue he ran into with VB. I'm now leveraging the Java knowledge I've gained to get into android app programming, and so far it's been reasonably succesful.
 
[MENTION=4071]BeoTeK[/MENTION] Sorry dude. That is an absolute shit thing to experience.

Today seems to be thankfully without scheduled or impromptu meetings at the moment. Thank goodness
 
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Depends on what you want to do with it, I'd say. Python is nice, as it's very powerful with great libraries, which makes it useful in a lot of fields. I learned the basics ages ago in Turbo Pascal, and once the basics are instilled, it's quite a bit easier to jump into a new language. Then I learned QBasic at home, a little C++ and delphi at high school, then Matlab at varsity. Since then, I learned some python so that could draw pretty matlab like graphs without shelling out loads for a matlab license, VBA so that I can write macro's for our CAD program, and Java on my boss' insistence to run our machines, to avoid legacy issue he ran into with VB. I'm now leveraging the Java knowledge I've gained to get into android app programming, and so far it's been reasonably succesful.
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It really depends, as per Avatar. I generally suggest to people to start with C/C++ and to then learn something else from there. Most of what I do day-to-day involves Perl, PHP, C & C++. Occasionally I have to revert to Ruby or Python, but that is in very extreme cases and mostly has to do with fixing someone's issue as opposed to doing my own thing.

I have to also state that I'm not a programmer/developer and that I'm more DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer (this is the space I like operating in). I also contribute on FOSS projects via GitHub and mainly focus on bugfixes (but that's just for fun)
 
PsychoFish said:
It really depends, as per Avatar. I generally suggest to people to start with C/C++ and to then learn something else from there. Most of what I do day-to-day involves Perl, PHP, C & C++. Occasionally I have to revert to Ruby or Python, but that is in very extreme cases and mostly has to do with fixing someone's issue as opposed to doing my own thing.

I have to also state that I'm not a programmer/developer and that I'm more DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer (this is the space I like operating in). I also contribute on FOSS projects via GitHub and mainly focus on bugfixes (but that's just for fun)
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Ja, I should emphasize that I'm no dev either. I just got interested in programming at an early age, and my mom had the means and connections to expose me and my brother to some programming classes. I'd like to get into FOSS projects as well, but the ones I'm interested in are such a mission to even get to compile.. So I'm keeping my eyes open for one on Github that I could just pull from netbeans or android studio. In the mean time, I'm posting my own projects on there, and slowly but surely getting my colleagues to also use it for version/config control.
 
Good mornin' all.

Sorry to hear that [MENTION=4071]BeoTeK[/MENTION]... You did the right thing and didn't drive off...
 
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