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1195 sats \ 24 replies \ @Natalia 3 Jan \ on: Daily ~Devs Hangout devs

a non dev is seated 👀

curious how everyone started their dev journey?

intro to sql class in the business school at UT Austin 🫡

my mom taught me html as a kid, and i picked up CSS at a job in college

“none of those are programming languages”: yeah i got made fun of endlessly by “real” programmers in college a lot

one place i def did not start it was high school. i did a “photography” class as my computer credit. it counted because we had some assignments that required you to use photoshop 😂

432 sats \ 0 replies \ @Natalia 3 Jan

wow, it seems you have quite a cool mum 👀

1031 sats \ 3 replies \ @bitcoinplebdev OP 3 Jan

For me shitty python course on udemy that I finished 10% of lol I wanted to write a "trading bot" 🤮

I gave up after that for a little while and didn't start making real progress again until I started with HTML/CSS then worked my way up to JavaScript

455 sats \ 2 replies \ @Natalia 3 Jan

for me, I know how to play around with simple WP sites and Nocode tools, learnt them because I constantly need to fix small things, and I hate to need to keep asking others to help 😂

2 sats \ 1 reply \ @bitcoinplebdev OP 3 Jan

I have a homie whose a newer web developer and also knows some no code tools (I think framer is the one he mostly uses) and his websites always look way better than mine haha

I think no-code makes sense for a lot of marketing / ecommerce sites and you can definitely make a living as a contractor building them for people

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @aljaz 3 Jan

i think one of the biggest struggles for anyone building stuff (not developing for fun) is to resist writing code where a nocode tool would do a better/sufficient job

121 sats \ 7 replies \ @ek 3 Jan

I had to pick a orchid subject in high school and "computer science" sounded interesting - or everything else sounded less interesting.

That was the second year in which this subject was available. The year ended up with me teaching the teacher because he didn't get some things I was doing with Java. It was possibly dumb things but it worked.

Was a fun teacher most of the times but I think he had some kind of ego problem.

I got an A- because I spent the night before optimizing something and didn't test everything so something did indeed not work when he graded the program - a very simple room booking system. Fun times :)

2 sats \ 6 replies \ @Natalia 3 Jan

"computer science"

it sounds super boring to me 🙉 how come they can name something so interesting into something so boring.!

0 sats \ 5 replies \ @ek 3 Jan

How would you name it?

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @Natalia 3 Jan

hacking 👀 or anything but computer science

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @ek 3 Jan

"Hacking" is not something you start with though.

You need some fundamentals first. "Hacking" is basically exploiting your existing knowledge about something to make things do what they weren't meant to do.

This reminds me of a kid I used to try to teach math and he kept asking me if I know how to hack people just because I told him once I study computer science, lol

Was also a fun kid but I think he ngmi lol

524 sats \ 2 replies \ @Natalia 3 Jan

or just programming, then at least I would be curious - what dis

computer science - okay, bye 😂

"Hacking" is basically exploiting your existing knowledge to do things that things weren't meant to do.

just the sound of it is thrilling! aren't we here to improve things?

This reminds me of a kid I used to try to teach math and he kept asking me if I know how to hack people just because I told him once I study computer science, lol

ugh, not in this way, why not just leave others alone.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 3 Jan

That seems to be the the unfortunate reality of any formal education, lol

Formal education made me hate exercising and music.

Two things that turned out to be great things actually later in my life.

338 sats \ 0 replies \ @Natalia 3 Jan

that's one of the reasons why I don't want to send my future kids to schools - why waste their time and be brainwashed when you can pretty much learn EVERYTHING online these days.

oh and these formal education trend to kill your curiosity!

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40 sats \ 1 reply \ @TheWildHustle 3 Jan

Watched Kody Low on the Guy Swan podcast talk about his coding journey, seemed cool so I thought I'd give it a shot. Ran into a bunch of free resources and got some good support from the community. Looking forward to finishing the plebdev/nostrdev material, and being more active with replit, nix os, and github.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @bitcoinplebdev OP 3 Jan

Kody is a legend! He helped me a lot when I was going through Base58

30 sats \ 3 replies \ @chaoticalHeavy 3 Jan

Took a Fortran course in college and got a co-op job writing graphics software.

30 sats \ 2 replies \ @bitcoinplebdev OP 3 Jan

Based! What text editor do you use? Also did you happen to learn any Forth in college?

63 sats \ 1 reply \ @chaoticalHeavy 3 Jan

I used punched cards. Output was a plotter across town (microwave roof to roof)

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @chaoticalHeavy 3 Jan

Just remembered, my company's local cardreader was linked to the mainframe across town and the plotter was connected to the mainframe. It was a Control Data Corporation datacenter. I was in downtown Houston and the CDC machine was west of downtown I think.

200 sats \ 1 reply \ @joyepzion 3 Jan

If my guess is correct, it started with "Hello World"

421 sats \ 0 replies \ @stackerhacker 3 Jan

Yeah except for me I spelled it “hello wrold”

I knew being a dev was gonna be rough after botching my first ever line of code 🙃

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 4 Jan

Programming calculators not yet realizing it was "programming."