bens81•2d ago

TIL I was wrong about needing to learn everything at once

I was talking with my cousin, a software dev, about how stuck I felt trying to learn Python. He said, 'Just build one dumb thing that works, even if it's bad. I made a script to rename 1000 photos before I knew what a for-loop was.' That clicked for me. I spent 3 months trying to memorize every concept from a book. Yesterday, I finally wrote a tiny program that rolls a dice. It's dumb, but it runs. How do you guys pick a first project when you're starting?

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loganl222d ago

Totally get that. My first project was a simple script to check if a website was up, which felt like magic.

ellis.hayden2d ago

Seriously? It's just pinging a server.