#self taught programming

[npd-and-me]

"sYnTaX eRrOr aT LiNe ______"

[gameonhead]

I can’t believe learning Python is that easy. Like

You look at C++ syntax and it’s like “yeah this makes sense, but I would never be able to figure this out on my own." Like, you have stuff like "std::cout << "Hello World!" << std::endl;" and std::shared_ptr and std::unique_ptr and it's like Wow! This is super interesting and helpful. But you would never figure that out by yourself

Whereas in Python, you can just kinda say it, add a few brackets and stuff, and Python will be like "yeah gotcha man, here's your stuff" and it's pretty cool. None of this double colon nonsense, none of this "ooo pointers and references".

I actually learned a lot of Python by myself, leaning on my experience with Object-Oriented Programming and C.

It's a shame then, that Python decided to overstep and get rid of type declarations of variables and parameters.

Because Python will happily take a whole ass dictionary as input to a function that jumbles letters in a string, and complain about ":(( can't do string operations on a dictionary :(((((" like my dude why didn't you tell me I gave you a dictionary, that means I did something catastrophically wrong

C++ does not let you do that. C++ will force you to put a string in there. If what C++ gets is not a string, it will yell at you like "Hey! Dipshit ! You told me that I would be getting a std::string. What the fuck are you doing with that int**&!?"

I could talk about C, but C is just C++ but less stuff and strings are all sorts of fucked up so I'm not gonna.

[nonbinarynarvin]

I love the fact that I keep getting perfect in my computer science class. Being self/book-taught is fucking amazing