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go $fsck yourselfThis is fucking dumb. People learning how to code donât know how to start. They donât know what to start writing or where to start on it. This is akin to telling a depressed person âjust donât be sadâ.
Exactly. If you know nothing about a topic, you donât even know, what exactly to google, except âhow to make computer do stuffâ.
The initial hurdle of incompetence can be extremely frustrating and almost impossible to climb, if you donât have guidance.
If you want to learn how to code, canât you just google âcoding tutorial for beginnersâ or something similar? Probably you would need to pick a language, but that would similarly be solved with ârecommended coding language for beginnersâ. Then itâs very easy to find a resource that starts with hello world and gradually introduces new things. And Iâm sure if it moved beyond a browser toolbox, a guide for setting up whatever IDE would be included.
Learning to code is by no means easy, but itâs possibly the best type of thing to learn when it comes to having a wealth of free, easily discoverable guides. The main obstacle is choosing to put in the time, and this comic removes that obstacle by forcing them to not put it off.
EuroNutellaManNo because most tutorials will start from âwrite print(âHello Worldâ)â and the like without mentioning compiling or where to write it or with whatâŠ
I didnât really get into coding until someone guided me through the basics of python, which is an easy language that doesnât even require compiling.
Itâs gotten a lot better in recent years tbf in terms of those kinds of resources. Beginner recommended languages like Python are still a pain because itâs super easy for a beginner to bork how they set it up, but on the whole thereâs plenty of online code sandboxes and other ways to get started.
Your point is definitely valid though. Why on earth would we want someone whoâs just showing an interest in programming to write their own compiler??? Wtf? If someone wants to get into baking you donât send them out into the fields for 6 months to grow some wheat.
When I was a kid I mucked around with html and css to make some GeoCities sites. I decided I wanted to learn how to code so I got a book from the library called âhow to code games for beginnersâ or something. The thing never told you how to set up an IDE or compile the game. So I was just frustratingly typing out the code examples into notepad without a clue as to what to do. I think this was during the dialup era so it wasnât like there was a wealth of info online.
I ended up abandoning programming for quite a few years. It just seemed like nonsense because writing graphics libs for C in notepad does feel like nonsense to a child. I wonder what life would be like if I had some better resources at that moment in time and decided you continue pursuing it.