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I think the biggest problem in learning to code is getting over the initial dev ops hurdle. ...definitely not what keyboard you're using.
by georgebonnr 13y ago
I think the biggest problem in learning to code is getting over the initial dev ops hurdle. ...definitely not what keyboard you're using.
- vonseel 13y agoI began learning to code in early 2012, and my experience confirms this. When I first started getting into Python heavily for work, it was so frustrating to have to set up virtualenvs, system and python paths, and runtime configurations. Another area I found tricky, as a self-taught developer, was objects and classes, and nomenclature of these things and functions between different languages. I've since done a lot of work in JavaScript, and somewhere along the way it all started to click. I'm finding it easier to read and understand parts of new languages, but there's still a big curve if the syntax differs greatly and seems unusual (I just started with Objective-C, and a year ago it was too odd to handle, but I think it's easier to pick up on now).
- walshemj 13y agoKids today when I started work I had an hours instruction on how to boot the PDP/11 (copy files used the editor) then was told get the book we have on FORTRAN and teach yourself. Its probably a sign of how shallow a lot of peoples knowledge is these days - I had one developer who did not know how to use a cli to work with MySQL to get round the limitations of phpMyAdmin
- bluedino 13y agoWhy learn, when you can Google any question you have and then blindly enter whatever instructions you find?
- walshemj 13y agotrouble is you will get a lot of hits on the easy stuff plagiarized from basic tutorials. How to do 2+2 in language x yes How to do do anything slightly complex you might have to spend a while digging.