#learning code

[ecrivainsolitaire]

The more I learn about programming the more I confirm my long held belief that the only reason programming is hard is because STEM people are allergic to developing teaching skills. You couldn't get away with that in any other field. Imagine you wanted to learn Japanese and you came looking for a teacher, and I told you "the first thing you need to do is read A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar back to back. Then we're going to sit you on a help desk with a line of Japanese people and you'll have to figure out the job on your own. If you do something wrong, a red light 🚨 will halt everything until you figure out the correct way to express whatever you were trying to say, or die trying. If you're lucky you'll get a warning that reads something like ERROR 804: INCONGRUITY IN CONJUGATION but most of the time your only feedback will be something along the lines of ERROR: COULD NOT CONVEY and if you ask for help online you will receive the most condescending answer with a bunch of terminology you have to look up to learn what the original problem even was".

Or, the way they phrase it, "in order to learn how to code you just read the documentation and jump into it".

Is there no one in this entire field that can come up with a decent textbook or something???

[raining-rays-reblog]

I've been learning Unity on the learn Unity website. It's pretty cool Unity has so many free tutorials. I'm doing the Create with Code course right now cause I wanna help with coding on the game my pals and I are making. I wanted to learn how to code in college but my school was pretty much completely art-based so there wasn't any classes, sadly. Big L. But now I get to learn on my own and hopefully get a decent handle on building scripts and setting up game objects to help with the game.

We're gonna make a 2.5D dark fantasy merfolk survial rpg. It's gonna be so cool! There's gonna be a bunch of different mer species and crazy underwater monsters! We're also a bunch of neurodivergent nerds, so theres gonna be a bunch of references and wacky characters. My favorite so far is a bubbly seahorse mer dude who's a merchant and pregos. There's also a shark knight whose story is turning out to be so tragic. There's also a seal Selkie outcast that wants to be a mer, so they only wear half their skin.

The team also wants to have little collectible animal companions to travel with. A small shark, maybe a sand shark. Probably an eel. Not totally sure yet, we haven't made a list of them all yet.

So pretty cool, right? The team and I think so at least!

[snowcodes]

I've had a few lessons on python...and I still really don't like it. I always feel like the code is missing something and the programme misses out labelling things like 'variables'. This might just be because I started with Javascript and creating those variables you would 'let *insert variable name here*' instead of just randomly writing a word and hoping it picks it up as a variable. I'm sure Python will grow on me in time but right now I'm still not convinced it's better than other languages 😅

[quidcumque]

Learning Opportunities aka “NOW WHY DID THAT BREAK IT”

So I'm a mid-30's career changer, and I know that the best way to learn programming is to poke it. I'm doing the C# Fundamentals for Absolute Beginners and while each video is ~15-20 minutes, I spent about four hours on the Methods one because I decided to get Fancy

To teach Methods, he had a pre-written Name Game (enter first name, last name, and birth city when prompted, and it reverses them) that worked, but had an ungodly amount of repetition and bloat. He then showed several different ways of streamlining it into Methods so you only had to type things out once, right? 

I try to change  things up to make sure I'm understanding rather than copying, so since it was about reversing the input I made a "90's Satanic Scare" version. Console warns against secret mind-control messages in your children's music, so you enter three lines of "your child's favorite song" and then it says oh no, the secret message is {input written backwards}. Slightly more complicated than his, because I wanted to flip the strings ALL the way around, not just backwardsFirst backwardsSecond backwardsThird but the full play-the-record-in-reverse treatment. AND, third complication, I pause the videos and try to complete things myself before it’s fully explained

Also I slightly skim when I read

All this to say that changing two things would have saved me about three hours:

If I’d watched a little further into his explanation of WHY you would overload Methods (ie have more than one version with the same name), because I might’ve processed the implications of what he’d said about input parameters

If I’d read the FULL text of the goddamn error popup, which said not “would you like to continue running anyway?” but “would you like to run the last successful version?” BECAUSE THEN I might not have generated many and increasingly flummoxed notes about why I wasn’t getting repeatable results --not at first realizing it was INCONSISTENT results, but thinking I’d mixed up my various versions, thus generating more confusion because my mental list of code combinations I THOUGHT I must have tried was getting longer and longer

GodDAMN, though, I understand the hell out of this particular section of bullshit, now

[lookingfordrachenaut]

HTML/CSS and this cute as hell creature.

His name is Lionheart, and I will protect him always.

[beesandcomputers]

mandatory introduction post

Hey! My name is Bee and as my blog says I have never touched a computer before but amid my final approaching rapidly and the corona crisis I have decided that I need to learn to code to create a mobile phone game. 

Do I have a clear idea in mind? No.

Do I have a single reason why I would get myself into this task? No.

Am I a passionate gamer? No.

Am I a disappointment to my parents? Yes, but I have already created a pinterest board for this so this is happening.

So, about me.

I'm a 20 years old college student (languages) and this is probably my 700th side blog ( I once read an article that said that tumblr allows up to 99 side blogs and that's more than one could ever need and I challenge that every day) so I'm not gonna bother to link them all here.

My main is @wwwee2347 so if you ever wondered what I'm like on the inside... yeah.

I hope to post here about my progress and I know I'm gonna fuck up a lot, so any suggestions are welcome.

If I randomly stop posting here after two weeks it's probably because I have found a new passion project in becoming a taxidermist or I was crushed by an inevitable doom of taking 13 classes this term. Either way, wish me luck.

[neko-in-lcl]

Hey :) Is anyone here learning js as QA for autotests? Maybe some kind of community? It’ll be great :3  Work in web project and here come the time to prepare for autotests. Some nervous and not understand some things, already trying Cypress.io.  Be really happy to some companions.