Anyone that uses VIM is into sado masochism.

Is it just me, or is learning these coding/programming languages (even if I'm still just on the baby basics) and then troubleshooting/experimenting with what you've written wildly addicting?

I feel like I'm starting to understand those stereotypes of silicon valley nerds who don't move from their work stations for 24 hours at a time, consume all their meals via shakes, etc.

Like, seriously... I want to do this/keep learning/continue practicing more than I want to play Warzone right now. It's nuts!

I feel like 🤯’s going to develop a charting app by the end of this. Keep up the good work

May 2, 2020 20:18:48 GMT System said:

I feel like 🤯’s going to develop a charting app by the end of this. Keep up the good work

Yes, it's amazing how easy Web development is these days, it's all just stitching together premade modules.

When you learn on your own debugging is fun. When you have a deadline and NEED a final product or results it is a different beast altogether.

One error to look out for is when everything looks like it works, but really does not. If you ever use inputs and analyze them in anyway, do some basic quality control testing. I mean this function will not return a bug, but it does not mean it is working

imgs.xkcd.com/comics/random_number.png

And low level web development is still stitching stuff together. Higher end stuff that you get actually get a decent salary from requires knowledge. And really this is the same for all tech. You can get a good job using premade shit and software but if you want the big money you need to know to how to make it scratch and offer them something software alone cannot provide.

May 2, 2020 20:18:48 GMT System said:

I feel like 🤯 ’s going to develop a charting app by the end of this. Keep up the good work

It is not actually a bad project to use his stuff to make.  When I get serious about coding again I plan to make a simple game to prototype on the off chance I get to actually complete the PhD.  Been working on a game that replicate the studies that lead to the birth of modern statistics to use as a learning tool to teach people statistics.  Prototype should be a simple 8-bit harvest moon basically with short tasks in it that need basic to intermediate statistics to solve.  RPG puzzle hardmode abled

May 3, 2020 1:18:47 GMT c said:

When you learn on your own debugging is fun. When you have a deadline and NEED a final product or results it is a different beast altogether.

One error to look out for is when everything looks like it works, but really does not. If you ever use inputs and analyze them in anyway, do some basic quality control testing. I mean this function will not return a bug, but it does not mean it is working

imgs.xkcd.com/comics/random_number.png

And low level web development is still stitching stuff together. Higher end stuff that you get actually get a decent salary from requires knowledge. And really this is the same for all tech. You can get a good job using premade shit and software but if you want the big money you need to know to how to make it scratch and offer them something software alone cannot provide.

Absolutely, but I am all about cheating wherever possible, my rule of thumb is that I don't need to be able to do it perfectly to understand it.

This is really cool that I have been reading up on lately: hasura.io/
The idea that you can roll this with ForestAdmin or Metabase and have a fully effective Business Intelligence tool without writing code is amazing.

Maybe it's just so obvious, I'm missing it... but at the moment, I don't get it and feel like an idiot: what's a "charting" app? "

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I have no idea either.

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May 3, 2020 13:37:31 GMT 🤯 said:

Maybe it's just so obvious, I'm missing it... but at the moment, I don't get it and feel like an idiot: what's a "charting" app? "

:$

An app that is on the most downloaded etc charts.

Ahhh, gotcha now brudda!

Hmm, I wonder what I could chart...

May 3, 2020 14:11:09 GMT 🤯 said:

Ahhh, gotcha now brudda!

Hmm, I wonder what I could chart...

Why ain't you paining the nursery? Don't you got a kid coming any day now? Get on them diapers.

May 3, 2020 14:18:03 GMT @ness said:

May 3, 2020 14:11:09 GMT 🤯 said:

Ahhh, gotcha now brudda!

Hmm, I wonder what I could chart...

Why ain't you paining the nursery? Don't you got a kid coming any day now? Get on them diapers.

That gif is a distraction.

Others can have their Supermen, Batmen, Avengers, etc. -- @ness is MY hero.

Here you go for goals Pi, Kitboga trained an AI bot to waste call scammers time. So the way this works is he uses javascript to get the scammer's voice and convert it to text. This feeds into python were AI then determines what the topic the scammer is talking about is. It then triggers one of several audio recordings Kit made related to that topic and plays them over the phone. Hilarious use of AI. Sunday nights are code nights for Kit on twitch and this is the type of shit he does on them. The bot so far works like shit, but I can see Kit making a game of refining this until he can get someone on the phone for an hour or more. Given this is his actual job, he certainly has the time to do it and a following routing of 10k fans on twitch and 100kish on youtube for the bot.

May 2, 2020 18:12:22 GMT 🤯 said:

Is it just me, or is learning these coding/programming languages (even if I'm still just on the baby basics) and then troubleshooting/experimenting with what you've written wildly addicting?

I feel like I'm starting to understand those stereotypes of silicon valley nerds who don't move from their work stations for 24 hours at a time, consume all their meals via shakes, etc.

Like, seriously... I want to do this/keep learning/continue practicing more than I want to play Warzone right now. It's nuts!

The online TAFE course I signed up for doesn’t seem to work so I took a page out of your work and gave coding a go.

May 4, 2020 9:50:19 GMT System said:

May 2, 2020 18:12:22 GMT 🤯 said:

Is it just me, or is learning these coding/programming languages (even if I'm still just on the baby basics) and then troubleshooting/experimenting with what you've written wildly addicting?

I feel like I'm starting to understand those stereotypes of silicon valley nerds who don't move from their work stations for 24 hours at a time, consume all their meals via shakes, etc.

Like, seriously... I want to do this/keep learning/continue practicing more than I want to play Warzone right now. It's nuts!

The online TAFE course I signed up for doesn’t seem to work so I took a page out of your work and gave coding a go.

Meant to comment on this! That's fucking awesome, System. Maybe we can start a global amateur coders club!

In other news related to coding/programming...

Today I learned that you do not delete the old/wrong/superseded code BEFORE writing the new/right/superseding code at least above or below it. Otherwise, you lose your reference for what to keep, what to lose, etc. FUCK ME!

System, how you progressin' brudda!?

The lessons on CSS grids and laying them out, etc. has given my respect level for web designers a HUGE boost. I feel like I need a whiteboard to visualize this shit before I can code it.

Apr 30, 2020 18:56:46 GMT Emperor said:

Java and JavaScript are completely unrelated. The only similarity is the name. No idea why they called it JavaScript. CSS and HTML go hand in hand. Then JavaScript. PHP is another web language, but I'm not sure how that fits in to the rest of the picture.

You've mastered HTML already? After what, two days?

I'm about to start on JavaScript, but was curious to circle back to this post after reading to course description. Java and JavaScript are TOTALLY unrelated? The descriptions make them both sound like they're object-oriented programming (OOP)... is that weightless jargon gibberish? Like, similar to saying calculus and statistics are technically related because they're both maths? (probably a terrible analogy... best I could muster on the spot).

Never mind...

I watched this:

[video}https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpeym1_lmPo&feature=youtu.be[/img]

Entertaining AND educational!

May 6, 2020 19:53:16 GMT 🤯 said:

Never mind...

I watched this Entertaining AND educational!

Fixed 😅

Well, they are both object-oriented languages, but there are a lot of them out there.

May 6, 2020 19:57:45 GMT System said:

May 6, 2020 19:53:16 GMT 🤯 said:

Never mind...

I watched this Entertaining AND educational!

Fixed 😅

Global amateur coders club members watching each other's backs already!

May 6, 2020 19:21:24 GMT 🤯 said:

System, how you progressin' brudda!?

The lessons on CSS grids and laying them out, etc. has given my respect level for web designers a HUGE boost. I feel like I need a whiteboard to visualize this shit before I can code it.

<! - - Still on HTML, one or two things frustrated me but I got the hang of it. As long as I do exactly what it says, it works - ->

Wow, you guys are talking coding and I'm like 'I wore actual clothes today and left the house'. Okay, it was to buy more booze but still, I wore pants (with actual fasteners, socks AND a bra) and saw a person.  

May 6, 2020 20:17:02 GMT iron maiden said:

Wow, you guys are talking coding and I'm like 'I wore actual clothes today and left the house'. Okay, it was to buy more booze but still.

IM, quarantine! C'mon, grrrl.

Object orientated languages make my brain hurt. Then again I tend to mostly use functional stuff.

:lol:

You do functional programming, the most confusing mindfucky paradigm of them all, and OO makes your brain hurt?

What functional languages do you use?

My main use of programming is with R to do statistical analysis. So functions are my bread and butter. Got to admit the abandonment of if-else loops and goto loops was pretty strange at first but now I love it. Once you get to them iterative recursion and defining functions instead of using goto subroutine stuff gets natural.

But for what I do I basically just need to manipulate a dataset, so functional programming is perfect for it.  If I was building a program like a video game though it would be hellish I assume.

It does make for very concise coding. I had a flurry with Haskell during my PhD because my research group had a big Haskell contingent, and I sort of got the hang of it. I could manage, let's put it that way. However sometimes it feels like you need to a PhD in functional programming just to understand it properly. When I did it in undergrad I didn't get it at all and did horribly in the exam.

You smarter guys are breaking my brain with your smart stuff talk.

Back on my level, I've been wading into JavaScript today with a fresh brain and set of eyes. So far so good and just as fun and addicting as HTML and CSS. So all that is promising.

Lionheart, what coding/programming languages do you use in the video game world? I feel like eventually I'll need to start sponging off of you for when I go to reprogram my own next evolution of No Mercy. (I presume I might also need to learn how to solder if I want to actually make a playable cartridge...)