Stack Overflow was a good resource when I was learning to code. Once I started to see the errors and had to look elsewhere for answers I stopped using that site. There are better language-specific sites with good examples out there anyways.

Dynamic typers: learning the debug tool is too hard.

It was for school. I've probably made programs in about 20ish languages now, all shitty school projects of course.

I did some coding in Kotlin, an android app language. You can graphically pick an object, say a button, place it and change it's various characteristics in a side panel. Then you go into the actual code and set up what it does when pressed.

Sort of like what you described, but you are doing all the work.

Just tossing some ideas around man. I've got a few projects of my own I really should work on instead.

A quick Ctl+F shows you are missing height + weight for a BMI calculations. A 200lb land whale isn't worth much to a white man. Speaking of, need a "from" perspective as well. If a negroid was calculating it they don't mind a 300lb butter golem.

Widowed w/children is a thing as well, many men don't mind a widow with a kid, dunno how well that is reflected in children/man/divorce calculations. STDs also, diseases other than STDs such as uhhh I dunno, brain worms or something.

If you really want to get complex, hotness with or without makeup, using the makeup removal app might help, though inputting data could be difficult. And a degree-meter for how badly she has the feminism. That can turn people off real fucking quick.

That's all I got off the top of my head.

Hmmm, while skin color does matter, it's more about the genetic groupings. I forget the (x, y) graph that distinctly shows the various races. For example, jews are a different grouping closer to arabs than whites, yet many have white skin.

SJWs are deliberately infecting C++ with their CoCs. Was an article about it the other day.

Fuck it, if they would pay me to do it, I would. Despite how dumb it may be.

Wow, I actually understood all of that.

*shrug

You paid for it. Thanks G.I. bill.

I like object oriented stuff like Java. But C based things are ok. It gets weird after that. I was exposed to around 30+ languages in the course. I didn't like that because I never got a good experience in any one language.

They really do concentrate on their basics, but they totally ignore any experience based stuff. So I have a huge amount of info on theoretical things, but not much on stuff I might actually use.

Good lord. Even as a newbie programmer finishing off university I know not to comment on something so simple. I generally fix all my whitespace/formatting issue in one go, about once per sprint.

Usually while also fixing up and adding to my comments to make them more clear to whoever has to read that terrible code and try to make sense of it.

CS student here. Try here first: https://www.codecademy.com Java is good to start with. C is good to learn too. But after a while you get familiar with most languages and can swap through several a day as needed.

Other notables: javascript, php, sql(for databases).

Job security fixing that shit.

You can start as a roustabout and make $18/hr working 6 12 hour shifts a week.

$6,048 a month, assuming standard overtime rates. Not a bad haul if your just lookin' make some cash. Perfect for a single man with no children, or a guy down on his luck with too many children.

Take-home would be something closer to $4,000 after taxes though. Even less if overtime laws don't apply.

Sounds a bit like my class projects I've turned in. Sure it will pass the testing script, but just don't ask it to do much else.

University.

Some first year CS kid asks a question and gets a pajeet demanding to know his rationale only to reveal later that he doesn't know the answer regardless of context.

Had something like this happen to me. In my first programming class, I knew nothing. Asked a question from the TA in the programming lab that accompanies the class. Later learn that the reason she couldn't answer a simple question on how to use a Java print method was because she was a diversity student. Only reason she had the grades she did was because vagina.

There was a girl in my geosciences 100 class that was always complaining. She wanted valedictorian and some STEM degree. Found out she was always complaining because her grade was something like 45%-50%.

For me goes100 is a fun and easy elective, for her it made her face crushing reality. At least I got to on field trips with coeds.

Ahh fuck, the cancer has metastasized.

I only see the emphasis on secure coding growing further as time goes on.

Certainly this is why it is on my mind as I program. However:

For secure programming, that is truly a "matryoshka doll" type of thing to get into

This.

Learn a source control system (I prefer Git), learn how to build and run Unit Tests, figure out the difference between monolithic applications and microservices and in which situations each would be appropriate. Learn how to optimize your code, learn how to build secure code and robust error handling.

They go over all of these things while we learn to program, though to what degree their teachings reflect reality I can only guess at. Right now we are going through how to use Scrum/Agile with git while doing projects for local businesses. Scrum/Agile is surprisingly easy with a background in the military.

There isn't much on monolithic vs micro-services but they do go over some of the laws involving large corporations vs goin' at it on your own/with a partner. Secure code is gone over but to really get into it they make you pony up for extra classes (that I can't afford). I went with the mathematics instead of cyber-sec route anyways.

There are several early classes that have us specifically go over the documentation. Forcing us to learn from it and then make our projects from that. While the documentation is good enough for professionals to use as reference, it makes for some terrible teaching/learning material.

Try to gain an understanding of the principles they teach.

This is probably why I have such problems in a traditional learning environment. I try to learn the underlying ideas behind what they are teaching instead of just memorizing shit for a week and forgetting it.

God I hope so. I bloody hate most of my projects. There are a few I had fun with where I was allowed actual choices in what I did.

Lol fuck vim. They forced us to use it for awhile. I just started using mousepad instead and importing to vim.

Not to go too old-man on you here

I remember typing code from a magazine into a green+black screen to make a game. I just never followed up on it until now. Currently learning binary commands to RISC-V machine code into assembly and translating to C. Boring stuff, but weirdly interesting to see how code makes the physical interface into actual logic gates and such.

You absolutely have to be willing to learn and able to read on a basic technical level or you have no business even starting.

Most of the how-tos on how to setup an working environment absolutely suck donkey balls. One thing that isn't exactly the same as the writeup and you get lost in hours of troubleshooting.

After doing this for a few years now it is fairly easy to do, and fixing the install/setup crap usually takes less than an hour. But when you have 30-50 hours of homework each week wasting time on shitty setup procedures is a pain.

I learned on Eclipse. It is maddening to setup. Its great for learning once it actually starts to work.

I find it surprising how much coding I'm starting to do in notepad/mousepad or direct-edit in github. Even more surprised when it works without several hours of bug hunting like when I first started.

Wine doesn't even work on linux half the time.

Unless you are truly stellar, it's a thankless profession for expendable drones in organizations that promote on diversity. You're much better off spending a few years learning a trade and then opening your own business.

This could be said of damned near any mega-corp job.

Lol, oh god don't remind me!

It's sometimes useful for programming projects in school. But once I figured out how to read the write-up on a function(it looks like pure gobbledygook to a newb), and see a small example of how it's used(by playing with it), I don't have to revert to stack overflow much. Besides, that place can be pure fucking cancer sometimes.

Sounds about right. Banks are terrible like that simply because they can have the state come down on anyone that bothers them like a ton of bricks. And then take out insurance to cover any theft that affects them. Or just say it was their customer's money that was stolen instead.