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    August 21, 2019

    How did you guys expand your GitHub presence to improve the status of your resume? learn programming

    How did you guys expand your GitHub presence to improve the status of your resume?

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 06:04 PM PDT

    I'm a recent software support grad and I have been trying to pad my resume by working on projects that I can put on my GitHub that potential employers can look at to gauge my skills. I finished working on my personal website a few days ago and I am looking for any sort of small to medium scale projects (Web Dev, Mobile Apps, Software) that I can complete on my own and post on my GitHub. The projects don't need to be paid, obviously.

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    Where do you guys go to find projects to work on or what have you guys done to showcase your skills when applying for jobs?

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    Any advice would be greatly appreciated, and thank you for your time!

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    Feeling Impostor Syndrome / Being an impostor - Is this work enough? How did you surpass it?

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 02:38 AM PDT

    tl;dr: Been a bit lazy during college, have been falling behind what I wanted to be. I can do stuff that's simple but not complex things/fully functional stuff (either by lack of skill and boredom). Feeling like I don't learn enough and can't really do it on my own. Not sure how to surpass this.

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    Hello guys

    I read the FAQ but I don't feel like it really goes into this situation even though it probably is a somewhat common thing. It's a mental side of learning but also related to actual work output.

    I got into CS not by heart, to be honest I still don't know what I want in my life, I'm not really passionate about this, or about anything, I was smart, I had good grades and I had the idea that I was going to be the next big thing. I got into college with a lot of ego coupled with insecurity and close to zero study habits not really into the degree but having no other clue of what to pursue (besides Arts and that's not viable). I did what I thought was fun/made me look cool and that was never going to class. I have a good CV in terms of extra-curricular but it feels a bit hollow (although the soft skills are pretty good), I've had leadership positions but I always feel like I could've done more.

    I'm an average student to be fair with myself my college is known for being very hard (and old theory focused) so these grades would probably be better somewhere else, thing is it's half-assed. My projects for college were not my best work. There was an hard one but a friend of mine found it easy so he ended up doing the complex parts. And the others I either do alone, or carry the group (while still not really pushing it totally or waiting till the end). Then exam wise I wait until the end of the year and don't really do my best. I really don't have much to show after two years and while it's the usual and I'm probably somewhat prepared, I don't feel like I know that much. Worse the things that I did do I lost due to bad git habits (and last minute powered projects, when you are running after the clock git becomes a distant memory).

    I've had some cool learning experiences, Theory of Computation was amazing and I loved it, I got a inferior grade (C+) due to being a stubborn ass but I actually loved it and learned a lot (and therefore barely gave myself time to study for tests) but I really like some of this but not everything.

    This summer I made a little path-visualizer in JS and HTML/CSS, it find paths and shows the step by step animation, it was fun and interesting and it's probably the thing I'm proudest of, but it's so simple. I also made a few Vue webapps but I only got the basics because I got bored. I started following tutorials on C of how to implement both a text-editor and a functional language but after some weeks I got totally bored. This is what happens most of the time.

    I'm currently taking a Deep Learning MOOC and finding it quite cool (although it's copying code for now and really don't have ideas on what to do with it) but then I wanted to deploy a simply classifier it and the only free option was Heroku, there weren't many tutorials only a few old ones, I had looked into Flask for a small tutorial but after failing a few times and seeing how much I really don't understand about what I'm doing I just felt disheartened, there so many frameworks and I don't know of what half of the documentation is even talking about. There's Docker that seems to make things easier but then even knowing the versions of stuff I should put in requirements seems like a nightmare.

    I've read about Impostor Syndrome and it does look a bit like it, but then it also feels like incompetence, I know I can do some simple stuff (If I go back and reread the tutorials/notes), but I can't really conquer mountains. I can follow some tutorials and get a basic flask app running but I can't seem to do that for a thing I needed but never saw before and yeah most of my friends can't too (I still carried a few projects, but I can't always do that), but some can and I feel like I should.

    Have you guys gone through this? How did you surpass your lazy habits and your past incompetence? How did you start producing quality stuff? How did you start approaching those seemingly insurmountable little things?

    I don't wanna pretend I can do stuff for the rest of my life. I wanna be confident on what I can deliver.

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    After 3 long hours of debugging, I genuinely feel accomplished

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 07:51 AM PDT

    So I have been working on a webapp in Django, and I am relitively new to it, but I still know my way around it.

    So I came across an error in one of the class based views, and fixed it, which brought on another bug, etc. Well 3 hours later I fixed another bug caused by using namespace in the urls file and walluh. python manage.py runserver, and there was the website. It all worked. And tbh it felt more accomplishing than actually writing the code

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    When do you give up on a problem? How do you improve algorithmic thinking?

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 07:14 PM PDT

    As a beginner, i haven't been fully immersed in programming and algorithmic thinking (just started last month). Im in college but not as a CS major but we are required to take a CS subject and i can't afford to fail as it takes-up a huge chunk of my units.

    Recently, we were given a homework a week ago. It consists of 3 problems and i was able to figure out two (with help, of course). But the third one, stumped me (it was about printing primes) i have a strong mathematical background (i know some mathematical algorithms for checking primality). But after many unsuccessful attempts, it seems that i can't communicate my ideas to my pc i.e. i can't translate my pen-and-paper mathematics approach to code. I told myself to not get help this time because i had it in the first two problems.

    Ultimately, i decided its about time to give-up as i have more tasks to do. I looked-up the solution and tried to comprehend it. Fortunately, i understood it. But in the end, programming is all about thinking by yourself with little to no reference.

    Could you kindly answer the titular questions?? Apart from those, how do you actually TRANSLATE your ideas to code?? How to EFFECTIVELY and EFFICIENTLY practice COMMUNICATING (i.e. coding) to your pc?? How do you build up such skills??

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    NES Programming?

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 01:14 PM PDT

    I know this is a long shot, but does anyone have any resources regarding programming NES games in assembly? I'm a complete beginner unless Scratch in 5th grade counts, but I'm taking Java currently in my high school.

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    What math is useful for programming?

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 11:57 PM PDT

    I heard this is used for CD/DVD error correction (so scratches don't ruin the disc) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCH_code but form my understand that's all hardware based in disc players

    I know of the easier to understand/implement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming_code and Luhn algorithm which is used to detect typos on numbers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhn_algorithm

    They're all extremely basic. I know I ONCE calculated what part of a graph was clicked but the trick was two spots correlate to the same selection (hard to explain but it was basic math). But other than that I don't think I used math. No number generators, nothing using cos/sin, greatest common denominator, nothing but a lot of ands, ors and once in a while xor.

    Can anyone suggest a math to learn and a project to do with it?

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    I made a Python Application to Analyze Twitch Streamers' Viewership Data

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 11:44 PM PDT

    After a bit of tinkering, a whole lot of API calls, and copying code from the internet, I made a poorly edited video describing the process of making an Analytics tool for Twitch.

    I wanted to learn the Twitch API because I knew that they had a code jam coming up and I was hoping to participate in it. The code is in my github; what are your thoughts? Any suggestions for the app?

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    Help with restful API design for user authentication

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 09:01 PM PDT

    I'm trying design an API for a website where users will login, then retrieve data specific to their user.

    I am handling user authentication with JSON web tokens. I have two routes, api/login and api/register, that return a JSON web token containing the user's ID if the login was successful.

    After this, I want to make another call to the API to retrieve the specific user data. My immediate thought was to make a route like api/users/:id that would retrieve the user data for a specific ID. But, I don't actually send back the user ID from the login request, so there's no way for my front-end to know which endpoint to call.

    I could pass back the user ID in plain text along with the token in the login response. Then, I can use the token to verify that any request made to api/users/:id matches the ID in the token in my back-end. But, I wasn't sure if sending the user ID back in the response in plain text would cause any security concerns.

    Alternatively, I could just make the route api/users, and determine which user to get the data from the token directly. This doesn't seem like great design to me, since I feel like api/users would suggest returning all of the users.

    Any advice?

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    Need Advice to Begin a Programming Side Project

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 08:31 PM PDT

    No idea if this is the right subreddit for this but I looked for a good amount of time. If it's incorrect maybe someone could point me in the right direction? Already checked r/SideProject. Anyways, as the title states, I'm looking for a programming/math-related side project that I can work on through school and on weekends, etc. Preferably, I'd want it to be something I could really sink my teeth into, (have it take anywhere from 6months - 2 years to get started or complete). For that amount of time though, I'd like for it to be able to aid me in future career endeavors and/or just be something that is useful to learn. I'm already confident in my current programming/math abilities and my abilities to learn new material so don't mind the difficulty of a project, I enjoy challenging myself. Thank you for reading.

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    My company is switching focus to software development

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 06:53 PM PDT

    Without getting too specific I work in aerospace and our company announced that they are going to migrate towards being a software company. The way they presented it was I guess similar to how Tesla does their cars in that they sell software options and unlock features as our customers purchase them, and doing the heavy lifting with software upgrades over hardware upgrades. My question is what kind of programming language would something like that use? I've been learning JavaScript and web development but with this I may switch gears and jump on this train. Thanks in advance for any input.

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    New Java Programmer here.

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 06:35 PM PDT

    Greetings! As you may have learned from the post's title, I am new to programming, and I have chosen to learn Java. Yes, I could have gone the easy route and went with Python, but I felt like Java would give me opportunity to create some really neat things that people would enjoy using.

    My current plan is to try and master the fundamentals of Java and then learn to make a simple game, such as a tetris clone, to test my skills. Hopefully I can one day be good enough to do this for a living.

    I have had some previous experience with C++ which made me want to cry as a teenager, as well as experience using AS400 and Visual Basic in college. I enjoyed learning about those quite a bit, but financial hardship prevented me from finishing my degree. Well enough of my back story, if you have any suggestions as to where to start, please let me know. as for now im going through the tutorials from programmingbydoing.com

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    Problems with Odin Project?

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 02:21 PM PDT

    Hello everyone,

    I am having a hard time explaining this because I am extremely new to the programming world. So to make things really short, I have no knowledge so i started doing The Odin Project. I basically just started, but I'm not getting anywhere. I had to download a VM, and install Linux on to my windows surface pro. But I have hit so many issues with this process that I haven't even been able to start the actual coursework. It has literally gotten to the point where I try to run my VM, and my start screen is black with a cursor blinking, but nothing responds. I tried google, but I'm not getting anywhere.

    I am really interested in learning on my own right now, but is there a different program I can learn from where I don't have to use this VM to learn from them? Or should I just start over on the VM, and continue with the odin project?

    Any help is greatly appreciated. I am pretty lost and overwhelmed in this area.

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    Convert python file(.py) to .app on macos

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 01:42 PM PDT

    Hi, I've made a project in python that is obviously a .py file. I've tried using py2app to convert it to an application, but for some reason when I open the file my computer crashes and sends me back to the login screen. I've also tried pyinstaller, but that opens the terminal which creates an error...is there any other way for me to convert my python file to an applicaion?

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    First time making discord bot, I need help understanding some lines of code

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 09:09 PM PDT

    I am trying to learn how to make a discord bot and I am following this guide I am at the configuration files page and there an excerpt at the end telling me to put this piece of code in my config.json file 

    { "prefix": "!", "token": "your-token-goes-here", "meaning_of_life": 42, "passwords_array": ["please", "dont", "hack", "me"], "secret_passcodes": { "bank": 1234, "home": 4321 } }

    I don't understand what this code/file is doing. It had me put this line in the index.js file 

    const config = require('./config.json');

    could someone explain this to me before I move on, i tried googling it but I am not finding anything that answers my questions specifically

    Heres what my index.js file looks like 

    // require the discord.js module const Discord = require('discord.js'); const config = require('./config.json'); // create a new Discord client const client = new Discord.Client(); // when the client is ready, run this code // this event will only trigger one time after logging in client.once('ready', () => { console.log('Ready!'); }); client.on('message', message => { if (message.content === '!ping') { // send back "Pong." to the channel the message was sent in message.channel.send('Pong.'); } ; }); // login to Discord with your app's token client.login('REDACTED');

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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    Got a software job - now the real learning beings

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 05:51 AM PDT

    Hey guys,

    I got a software job as a developer working with a C# and .NET environment making windows desktop and iOS point of sale software, which uses a P2P message store, persistence, replication, and communication system built internally by the company. It also relies heavily on web services published by our main client, and knowledge of windows operating system and command line.

    First off, I owe a debt of gratitude to you guys, as at least a portion of my learning and resources I used while preparing for interviews came from this subreddit.

    However, now I'm out of the frying pan and into the fire, so to speak. If you guys have any resources on any of the technologies or environments I mentioned above in the first paragraph that I could study up on, I would be much obliged. I seem to find myself at least once a day here in this office scratching my head wondering what just happened as another developer performed a series of incomprehensible steps to get something in my setup or my dev build working.

    Thanks in advance!

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    Best way to establish/program a local (web)server (Raspberry Pi) at my customers for communication between devices

    Posted: 21 Aug 2019 12:16 AM PDT

    The title may be a bit misleading, because I have no idea how to word this properly.

    This year I decided to start my own company for various reasons (I'll save you the explanation). To make a long story short: I want to do what I love, which is building web applications (but specifically mobile applications). I've started a new project which (in a nutshell) makes it possible for tablets (or phones) to communicate with a local webserver (using Raspberry Pi) over the same network. The tablets are clients and there's one main device (either a computer or another tablet) which is the "administrator" and can access all data from the local webserver and do something with it. For example:, the clients can order "products" and the "administrator" can see which client ordered which product and deliver it to the client (WHOM IS IN THE SAME BUILDING AND ON THE SAME NETWORK). I know it doesn't make much sense, but I can't go into too much detail. The webserver has an API so the client can push data to the server and the administrator can access/modify the data.
    It is relatively easy to create a local webserver on a Raspberry PI using NGINX/Apache and Laravel as back-end framework with either MySQL or PostgreSQL. The reason why I do not want the data on my own server is because of the European GDPR law. My company is way too small to be able to pay services (from a lawyer) to create a privacy policy and ToS accordingly with the law. It would also (depends on the contract) make me less responsible for the data and it gives my customers full control of the data. The data will be back-upped by the Raspberry Pi in a hard drive. Also, a local webserver makes my application less dependent on a working internet connection since all communication is being done locally. The clients only need to be connected to the same network as the Raspberry Pi.

    My question is: is this the right way to do this? As you might know, encrypting PHP code with a 100%-safe accuracy is impossible (I can use tools such as IonCube and ZendGuard, but again.. not completely safe). I'm also not sure if a PHP based back-end is the fastest way.

    All these smart home devices got local webservers, such as SONOS, Philips HUE, Ring, Nest, etc. What kind of software are they using for their local API? Or is it not comparable with my situation? I've also read something about UPnP implementation, but I'm not a server/network expert and I have no idea if that whole UPnP implementation makes sense in my case.

    I hope this post makes sense.. thanks!

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    Lost my programming edge. How do I get it back?

    Posted: 21 Aug 2019 12:07 AM PDT

    During my years in college, I pushed myself really hard every night on projects. I usually ended up working til 2 to 3 am. After those grinds each semester, I really didn't want to write code. Now that I recently graduated after finishing up a grindy senior year, it's been hard to get back into programming. I feel like I'm struggling with easy topics even though before I could easily solve them. I guess you could say I lose my "eye of tiger" when it comes to software engineering. If anyone out there experienced this before, how did you overcome it?

    Thank you in advance. Happy coding!

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    Looking for Career Change Advice

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 08:10 PM PDT

    I am looking for any advice from people who have made a career change to Computer Programming. I have been working in accounting for about 4 years and have figured out that it isn't the career path for me. I have tried out learning Python from a book but I recently move and haven't picked up the book since. I know there are options such as bachelors degrees, masters degrees, boot camps, and online degrees. Looking for anyones advice on the best way to learn and get into the field. Feel free to tell your career change story!

    Thank you!

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    What is a robust definition of programmatic navigation?

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 08:08 PM PDT

    As of this date, a simple google search does not turn up an explicit and robust definition of programmatic navigation. It only yields a variety of tutorials on how to implement programmatic navigation in various front-end frameworks.

    In the context of a modern web-app, what is programmatic navigation?

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    Looking for advice on some classes feeling "useless"

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 08:00 PM PDT

    Hey everyone!

    I'm curious if anyone else has experienced the same kind of situation I'm going through right now. I'm moving into my last year of school and I just started another class that has given me kind of an empty feeling. This is probably the 3rd or 4th time since I've been going through my CS degree that I've been given some kind of blanket message "hey, we know a big chunk of what you're gonna learn is handled by newer options that do it for your, but you should learn where it all started!" and I'm getting a bit deflated. Every time I see this it just lowers my drive in the class (even more so because I'm working full time on top of school). Did anyone else experience this while going through a degree at times or am I just a more isolated case?

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    Understanding LeetCode's two sum

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 11:23 PM PDT

    I'm pretty sure almost everyone has seen this question, but I'm having trouble understanding the hash table approach. I can understand the brute force approach though. 

    def twoSum(self, nums: List[int], target: int) -> List[int]: indexes={} for i in range(len(nums)): num = nums[i] answer = target - num if num in indexes: return [indexes[num],i] else: indexes[answer] = i

    That's the answer for it, but why was a dictionary used instead of a list?

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    The following code is supposed to insert the user's details into a database, but it's not doing that or giving any error messages. When I refresh the database table, it still shows 0 entries. If more details are needed, please ask

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 11:13 PM PDT

    register.php

    <?php session_start(); if(isset($_SESSION['login_id'])) { if(isset($_SESSION['pageStore'])) { $pageStore = $_SESSION['pageStore']; header("location: $pageStore"); } } //Register starts if user clicks "Sign UP" if(isset($_POST['signUp'])) { if(empty($_POST['username']) || empty($_POST['password1']) || empty($_POST['password2'])) { echo "<script type='text/javascript'>alert('Please enter username and password');</script>"; } else { $username = $_POST['username']; $password1 = $_POST['password1']; $password2 = $_POST['password2']; if ($password1 != $password2) { echo "<script type='text/javascript'>alert('Passwords do not match');</script>"; } else{ $password = $_POST['password1']; $hash = password_hash($password, PASSWORD_DEFAULT); //Connect to SQL server include('config.php'); $sQuery = "SELECT id FROM users WHERE username=? LIMIT 1"; $iQuery = "INSERT Into users (username, password) values(?, ?)"; $stmt = $conn->prepare($sQuery); $stmt->bind_param("s", $username); $stmt->execute(); $stmt->bind_result($id); $stmt->store_result(); $rnum = $stmt->num_rows; if($rnum==0) { $stmt->close(); $stmt = $conn->prepare($iQuery); $stmt->bind_param("ss", $username, $hash); if($stmt->execute()) { echo "<script type='text/javascript'>alert('You have signed up successfully! Please log in with your details');</script>"; } } else { echo "<script type='text/javascript'>alert('This username has been taken');</script>"; } $stmt->close(); $conn->close(); } } } ?> <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> <title>Register</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="rlform.css"> </head> <body> <div class="rlform"> <div class="rlform rlform-wrapper"> <div class="rlform-box"> <div class="rlform-box-inner"> <form method="post" oninput="validatePassword()"> <p>Create your account</p> <div class="rlform-group"> <label>Enter Username</label> <input type="username" name="username" class="rlform-input" required> </div> <div class="rlform-group"> <label>Enter Password</label> <input type="password" name="password1" class="rlform-input" required> </div> <div class="rlform-group"> <label>Re-enter password</label> <input type="password" name="password2" class="rlform-input" required> </div> <button class="rlform-btn" type="submit" name="signUp">Sign Up</button> <div class="text-foot"> Have an account?<a href="login.php"> Sign In</a> </div> </form> </div> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>

    config.php

    <?php $host = "localhost"; $dbusername = "root"; $dbpassword = ""; $dbname = "gradekeeper"; $conn = new mysqli($host, $dbusername, $dbpassword, $dbname); ?>
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    How can I get better at programming?

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 11:06 PM PDT

    Hello guys, I just had my computer science paper and I wasn't able to perform well in it (35/50). I'm passionate about computer science and want to do it for the rest of my life. However, I seem to forget important things from time to time. I keep forgetting syntaxes. I can apply logic fairly well but suffer in hard problems.

    How can I get better? This has been bothering me for a while and I thought I'd ask more experienced people.

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    Is Github actions fully free?

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 10:59 PM PDT

    On the about page I can't find any stuff about price https://help.github.com/en/articles/about-github-actions

    submitted by /u/DazzlingBelt7
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    How to use code to analyze a book?

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 06:55 PM PDT

    Hi,

    I have no coding experience. Is there a tool or a type of coding language I'd have to learn to analyze a book?

    I'd want to be able to paste the text in and maybe find common words, concepts, how the concepts are linked, etc. Is something like this possible? How difficult is it to design something like this?

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