Learn to code.
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I learned to code before it was cool.
I actually took some classes in early 1980s that after which I could write code in Basic. I thought it was uninteresting and difficult although not pointless. It also taught me that's a job for somebody else.
? touché Pede, touché.
Damn, all these cool kids with C++ and Python. many years ago now, I made fire by rubbing COBOL and CLISTs together. ?????
I still work with ibm assembler.
Someone said that the First Starships would have assembler and COBOL somewhere in their systems.
if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
As long as you don't still have the woollen socks and sandals and knee lenngth shorts (Hawaian shirt optional).
Only time I wear those socks is when the weather is -40, and I am hella cold XD
Haha, try python next time, it's actually readable, at I think it is.
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR
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LEST WE BUILD OUR OWN AND LEAVE YOU BEHIND
I’m taking SQL and Python certs then starting a computer science degree at 44 years old. I am learning to code. Any other suggestions? ? ??
I’m 41 so I’m right there with you. Plus getting laid off in a couple months too. Any other suggestion? Stay B A S E D Pede!
Brings back memories. Retired from Navy mid nineties in WA State, went back to school for Design/Coding Programming Degree. This was when the Tech World was red hot and everyone was having an IPO, Microsoft Millionaires throwing money at everything. Head hunters hanging out on the college campuses begging anyone enrolled in CS degrees to quit school and waving huge sign on bonuses. If you could spell COMPUTER you get git a high paying job in 5 minutes. It was truly the Wild West.
I graduated, went to work for MS at the main Redmond Campus. Each tower building was like wagon wheels stacked on each other. In the center was a giant 7 / 11 except everything was free and foosball tables (where my boss always was). The spokes were everyone’s offices, the walls to the hall were glass and my name was already painted on the door my first day of the job. Everyone had a couch in their office (I would soon understand why), they would come by everyday to pick up/deliver your free laundry, dinner was always catered by some fantastic restaurants (free), if you needed a reference book just call a number, it was brought to you in a manner of minutes, there was a centralized room where you picked out whatever PC and related gear you wanted. Man I thought I had died and gone to heaven.
The day was divided into three or more builds consisting of furious coding (much of it spaghetti code to fix bugs discovered on last testing cycle) then it would be handed over to tester’s to compile and find bugs. The testers & programmers would alternately be sleeping on their couch, eating hoes hoes or playing foosball depending on who had the code. I started noticing that everyone’s eyes were always bloodshot and they shuffled around like listless zombies. There was a saying going around, “If you don’t show up on Saturday, don’t bother coming in Sunday!” It didn’t take long for me to realize it was not a joke.
I had a friend there I went to school with, he was a walking brain and he quickly became one of the Golden Hair Gods of Redmond. He made the mistake of calling in one day, I think it was a family emergency. When he came back the next day I could not believe the difference in how he was treated. No one talked to him, it was like he was not even there. He had been shunned!
My friend soon quit as I did too. I had a family that had seen very little of me during my time in the Navy and just didn’t want to spend my life like that. The Tech Bubble soon popped and things really changed after that.
Spaghetti code? At microsoft? Really?
This guy has some great stories, mostly along the lines of "why is feature x on windows like that? well, because I randomly picked something and it never got fixed"
https://www.youtube.com/c/DavesGarage/videos
Building 1-7 and 9 Lake Bill.
How does one begin this journey? I am a caveman on the computer..
The O'Reilly books are a good start, there's usually a free pdf of the older ones online.
https://www.google.com/search?q=o%27reilly+pdf+%22introduction+to%22+javascript%2C+perl%2C+python%2C+ruby%2C+c%2B%2B
http://programming-motherfucker.com/become.html
Youtube has some good intro videos,
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ayoutube.com+%22introduction+to+javascript%22 or whatever
Perl is what I usually use for random projects, or javascript for web things. Look at a few different languages though, don't worry about which one to pick at first.
https://blog.upperlinecode.com/computer-language-fundamentals-five-core-concepts-1aa43e929f40
Thanks buddy!!! I really do appreciate it.
No problem, good luck with that. Two other things that come to mind here, maybe look at something like the raspberry pi for testing out different operating systems, running a web server, whatever. And, there are lots of better places online to ask coding questions than here,
https://www.google.com/search?q=best+%22single+board+computer%22
https://www.google.com/search?q=c%2B%2B+programming+forum
https://www.google.com/search?q=c%23+programming+forum
https://discuss.python.org/c/users/7
https://www.dreamincode.net/forums/forum/90-javascript/
https://www.perl.org/community.html
https://www.html5gamedevs.com/
Me caveman too.
?? I feel like a fucking idiot on the internet
Zoolander scene ?
I taught myself python with the Sololearn app. Probably to simple you at this point but found it to be fun and you can do practice problems on your phone. Not sure if you really have to get a CS degree to get a good job though. Lots of YT videos on getting a job without one I believe.
I started 40 years ago with BASIC and machine language. I was making a cheap Timex Sinclair sound like an organ with customizable sounds. Cassette storage sucked though. My first IBM-compatible computer had a 20MB hard drive, barely enough for an MP3 file today.
I suppose I'm multilingual, multiple flavors of BASIC, COBOL, SQL, PHP, HTML, Visual Basic, and more.
Hell yeah! I do not know how to do any of that, but some frens I had on Twatter we’re almost genius at it. Somehow, I found my way into a based group on there and to this day, idk how. Tbh, it was almost like an A-Team situation where we were a rag tag group of frens that excelled in different backgrounds. I miss my Twatter frens.
Just keep coding. Never stop - because the industry never stops.
Learn a new language or double down on your best one, make yourself more marketable, and just keep progressing.
Source: self taught, successfully employed
Ps: I was working as a bartender during much of this process, just to have money coming in while I searched for a job.
Also, just do random projects as a way to improve, not just generic programming. Make a small website, build a random app, make a video game (I learned the most from making video games - logic, mostly)
I learned how to code visual basic programs. I have gotten quite rusty since I took visual basic for windows in college. I've also programmed a finch robot several times.
Can confirm
That’s where it came from...!? Good thing I am getting I.T certs.
Epic! And yes, I also learned to code. Super valuable actually, thanks media! Not that I knew about them when I did it
Actually, "learn to code" was a meme we used against NPC journalists of liberal MSM companies who were fired by the thousands.
https://www.theringer.com/tech/2019/1/29/18201695/learn-to-code-twitter-abuse-buzzfeed-journalists
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/learn-to-code
LOL But they should put real code in the meme.
the line that says: for (1 <something hidden behind HackerPepe> 1++) {
is gonna throw compilation errors.