Why would she (knowingly) troll though? It seems like that would undermine the image of the project as a serious program for girls. Whoever is organizing the thing wouldn't want that, and no model is going to honestly get some pleasure out of sneaking in some clever troll posts to trick her own fanbase.
My guess is that the image you link to could have been someone trolling with a girl-coder spoof account, but then it got picked up by karlie's fans and retweeted by karlie herself, in earnest.
The image in this post on the other hand is probably made by karlie. She is probably only doing this project for image or maybe to help girls but obviously doesn't actually have the time or motivation to get very far in learning to program herself. So whenever it is time for a photo op she sits herself down and pulls up the first lesson until she has some shit on her screen that looks like code, snaps a picture, and then runs off to her next thing.
I have no idea who this is, but is it possible that she's just learning? Who here never fucked up when they were learning? If she's just new, good for her for pursuing something that interests her, that probably has no allure to her peers.
Typing "cd" over and over again suggests that she isn't learning, but just typing in gibberish. But the little program above that could be a legit learning excercise.
She's screwing up her cd .. by typing in cd.. - maybe she's switching back and forth between linux and DOS 5. Joking aside, I still say that she's probably just learning. It's still new and exciting for her, no doubt. Let her get into it and have fun, I say. That said, who the hell uses Z Shell?
And, if you look at the bottom of the screen, she finally got it.
cd means change directory. It's a command line command used to change directories. It had nothing to do with programming.
The top part of her screen is a small program though. It looks like a ruby program, but I'm not sure. I'm just starting to learn, but someone else can probably tell you what that bit is.
If she's just learning to code then leave her the fuck alone. I'd be embarrassed as shit if someone saw my first attempts at coding and using the terminal.
You're right that we all start out doing stupid shit, but she's broadcasting her stupid shit and putting herself up on that #codergirls pedestal for those sweet sweet internet attention.
It's not the stupidity that we're criticizing, it's the celebration of stupidity as equivalent to actual coding.
I don't think it's attention whoring. The world has moved on and our values of privacy and doing stupid shit in private has been left behind. For kids these days, sharing things publicly is how they share them at all. Where before we would have a friend over and show them our code and get help with it in private and then play couch multiplayer, now it's completely different. To us, her behaviour is aberrant, but to her and people of her generation, it's normal.
This is life now, and these kids keep putting stuff up in public where we have to see it. The internet is our front lawn and these kids are on it.
you know how to get better at coding? Share your shit. Yes, it will be bad. This is where you need to give up ego. Let people tear apart everything about your code. Then you learn from it. If I write something bad I fully expect to be shit on. Then I fix it.
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13 u/CarbonsAnniversary 10 Apr 2016 19:02
Wow, what an attention whore. At least Google how to do simple shit to make it a little convincing!
10 u/weezkitty 10 Apr 2016 21:47
There is the possibility she is trolling.
10 u/OneTrueCube 10 Apr 2016 23:23
"Never attribute to malice what can be easier attributed to stupidity."
1 u/sineb 11 Apr 2016 01:09
Works with our governments!
Ha... ha...
3 u/0x5f3759df 11 Apr 2016 11:21
After seeing this other post, I'm convinced she is.
0 u/onegin 06 May 2016 15:22
Why would she (knowingly) troll though? It seems like that would undermine the image of the project as a serious program for girls. Whoever is organizing the thing wouldn't want that, and no model is going to honestly get some pleasure out of sneaking in some clever troll posts to trick her own fanbase.
My guess is that the image you link to could have been someone trolling with a girl-coder spoof account, but then it got picked up by karlie's fans and retweeted by karlie herself, in earnest.
The image in this post on the other hand is probably made by karlie. She is probably only doing this project for image or maybe to help girls but obviously doesn't actually have the time or motivation to get very far in learning to program herself. So whenever it is time for a photo op she sits herself down and pulls up the first lesson until she has some shit on her screen that looks like code, snaps a picture, and then runs off to her next thing.
1 u/ginx2666 11 Apr 2016 13:05
13 u/123456 10 Apr 2016 19:24
Models aren't known for being smart and neither are their fans.
6 u/whisky_cat 10 Apr 2016 19:16
Anyone know what program that is? It looks like a mashup of Sublime with an integrated terminal, custom theme, git plugin and all.
5 u/Spip 10 Apr 2016 19:49
Code by VS maybe?
1 u/AetherWolf 11 Apr 2016 15:27
Looks like Atom from github, I use it for my work on arma servers and it has a decent plugin system for different code types.
Edit: Looks like /u/Spip is right
5 u/NoneOfTheAbove 10 Apr 2016 19:08
To be fair, she also used pwd
5 u/CatNamedJava 10 Apr 2016 19:48
It's a hello world program. You can see the program at the top. Concatenate strings.
3 u/damnbiker 10 Apr 2016 23:31
I have no idea who this is, but is it possible that she's just learning? Who here never fucked up when they were learning? If she's just new, good for her for pursuing something that interests her, that probably has no allure to her peers.
1 u/brucethemoose 10 Apr 2016 23:35
Maybe.
Typing "cd" over and over again suggests that she isn't learning, but just typing in gibberish. But the little program above that could be a legit learning excercise.
0 u/damnbiker 13 Apr 2016 01:01
She's screwing up her cd .. by typing in cd.. - maybe she's switching back and forth between linux and DOS 5. Joking aside, I still say that she's probably just learning. It's still new and exciting for her, no doubt. Let her get into it and have fun, I say. That said, who the hell uses Z Shell?
And, if you look at the bottom of the screen, she finally got it.
cd ..
Hooray!
Ah, good for her anyway.
2 u/Techttz 10 Apr 2016 19:50
It's nice finding funny things on programming.
1 u/the_subhorizon 10 Apr 2016 20:53
I'm sorry I'm stupid, but can anyone explain why her code sucks? Something to do with the cd?
5 u/sirewolf 10 Apr 2016 21:04
cd means change directory. It's a command line command used to change directories. It had nothing to do with programming.
The top part of her screen is a small program though. It looks like a ruby program, but I'm not sure. I'm just starting to learn, but someone else can probably tell you what that bit is.
1 u/the_subhorizon 10 Apr 2016 21:05
Thank you!
3 u/go1dfish 10 Apr 2016 22:06
Yeah it's a ruby program with a function concatenate_strings and a line that calls that function but does nothing with the result.
0 u/Pwning4Ever 11 Apr 2016 04:29
It looks like the program was called "code" and she was trying to execute or compile it.
4 u/sdgsdgsdgsg 10 Apr 2016 21:53
In addition to what sirewolf said...
She issues the cd command like this
this is an error, and it says so 'command not found cd..'
She then repeats it.
She dosent even understand how to change directories. Shes on the master branch of a git repo, and cant get cd .. right.
0 u/hi5enigma 11 Apr 2016 03:45
Obvious troll is obvious
-5 u/Retron 10 Apr 2016 19:12
If she's just learning to code then leave her the fuck alone. I'd be embarrassed as shit if someone saw my first attempts at coding and using the terminal.
4 u/Spip 10 Apr 2016 19:43
The issue is that this is not coding. Only three very simple commands in the terminal.
6 u/CatNamedJava 10 Apr 2016 19:45
You kinda prove thier point with the second sentence
23 u/Amadameus 10 Apr 2016 19:48
You're right that we all start out doing stupid shit, but she's broadcasting her stupid shit and putting herself up on that #codergirls pedestal for those sweet sweet internet attention.
It's not the stupidity that we're criticizing, it's the celebration of stupidity as equivalent to actual coding.
1 u/CarbonsAnniversary 10 Apr 2016 20:11
Exactly, it's like a participation trophy. Don't post pics of the failure, instead post the success.
1 u/Retron 11 Apr 2016 08:23
I don't think it's attention whoring. The world has moved on and our values of privacy and doing stupid shit in private has been left behind. For kids these days, sharing things publicly is how they share them at all. Where before we would have a friend over and show them our code and get help with it in private and then play couch multiplayer, now it's completely different. To us, her behaviour is aberrant, but to her and people of her generation, it's normal.
This is life now, and these kids keep putting stuff up in public where we have to see it. The internet is our front lawn and these kids are on it.
We are old.
0 u/sdgsdgsdgsg 10 Apr 2016 21:54
you know how to get better at coding? Share your shit. Yes, it will be bad. This is where you need to give up ego. Let people tear apart everything about your code. Then you learn from it. If I write something bad I fully expect to be shit on. Then I fix it.