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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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loganl221mo ago
Totally get that. My first project was a simple script to check if a website was up, which felt like magic.
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ellis.hayden1mo ago
Seriously? It's just pinging a server.
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kevin_dixon1mo ago
Yeah but that's the whole point though. The magic isn't in what the code does, it's in you making the computer do it for the first time. That feeling when your own script works is real, even for something small. It's the start of everything.
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