But he said he spent 7 years working on it. Can't you scroll down the page and read what it does?

Why would you even consider removing it?

It says clearly that it is several libraries and a template language he is releasing for Pascal and the part at the top is a web front end for testing them. The default example is his template language that is used to help parse HTML.

It could use one or two more sentences explaining that but really all I needed to do was scroll down and click the documentation link and read for two minutes to understand it..

I stopped trying to submit to r/programming years ago.

People generally cannot judge things on their merits. They upvote things that are already popular.

On reddit you are lucky if your submissions are not deleted.

Anyway congratulations on completing such a monumental effort!

If you can at least get an associates degree that will count for something to some people.

VB is not fashionable. I would say get the associates with minimal effort, in the meanwhile DO pay attention to trendy 'buzzwords' because newer languages and technologies usually ARE more relevant because they are more marketable skills.

Make an Android app with a map of your campus.

Its a good idea to focus a bit but definitely don't force it, especially early on you want a broader exposure I think. If you are interested in something then play around with it.

The trick I think is to have projects and train yourself. Things change, and even religions like SQL fall out of favor. The best way to use your time is to be good at Googling or npm module searching so that you can take advantage of recent thinking or advances.

In some countries/provinces an associates degree makes you legit for working, like for teaching English (if you ever want to try living in Asia), so I would get that.

Also, not all bachelor's programs are that hard, and you can take your time. If you can find a cheap BS CS degree that gives you an advantage in that no one can have one over on you on that count.

I wish I had finished the four year degree. Algebra isn't that hard. The trick is having friends for support and not having too many classes or work at the same time.

But that is for the paper, not the knowledge. The concept of a curriculum and college in general is obsolete. To learn you need to try to build projects, google/internet read relevant topics, copy code and modify for your purpose, ask questions and try to work with real programmers such as on open source projects. The main trick is having interesting projects to play around with. They don't have to be big projects.

And you can google big topics like software engineering, test-driven development, project management, data structures and algorithms, deep learning, etc. I would go so far as to say that if you are good at Googling and sorting through results, free websites/books etc., IRC, livecoding.tv, etc. and then doing experiments and teaching yourself from those sources, the internet is better than MIT or Stanford. Actually you can access some great Stanford/MIT/etc material online.

How about this crazy idea: just let people ask whatever they want and don't be dicks. If you don't like it, don't upvote. If it is a question missing key details or just something stupid like 'givr me Angular tutorial', that they should have googled, say so and downvote it.

Don't be dicks, don't automatically 'segregate' or censor, don't tell them to put it in a sub no one reads.

Part of having a free forum that you can participate in is giving everyone a chance to participate and seeing some stuff you don't like.

I say, report the ads and pure spam, but, don't censor, segregate, or moderate otherwise.

This has got to be some kind of scam.

I have the same problem. One idea I have been trying is just much smaller projects, maybe as little as a one-day effort. Or at least, something I can put out there as an initial version in one day, then later I can improve it if I am motivated.

One way to do this is by working on modules or components before trying to tackle the whole project. If I can get a module out on npm then at least a few people can benefit from it, and that can just be a few days or hours of effort. Maybe come back the next day and make a few improvements.

React and web components are also a good way to do this.

Better than git for windows: try babun http://vimeo.com/95045348 or boot2docker Windows if you're not sure about Ubuntu.

Is there a project unrelated to programming that interests you? Maybe you can translate that into programming interest.

I think the biggest reason is so that you can proudly say that you are an EMACS user and emacs users won't be able to talk shit. I use vim for a similar reason, although I know that's funny for emacs users. At least some old-timey linux/unix geezers respect vim.

The other reason to learn old-timey emacs or vim is so you can just use ssh on a headless server for development if you want. Or because there is almost always syntax highlighting for any language.

If you ask a recruiter they are always going to say that.