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    November 01, 2019

    Losing hope... learn programming

    Losing hope...

    Posted: 31 Oct 2019 11:16 AM PDT

    Over a year ago I graduated from a web-development immersive program with a 93% hire rate within six months of completion. I'm the only one from my cohort who hasn't found a job yet...

    I honestly don't know what to do. I'm not financially unstable, but I'm losing my mind. I love computers and I love programming. I have been doing code wars and learning more technologies since graduating but I can't seem to find anyone who will hire me.

    The balance between my current job, my personal life and finding a new job is crushing me into a state of depression and I can't see the light at the end of the tunnel. I don't know what to do, or where to turn. With winter looming close, I feel the pressure of being stuck in logistics for the rest of my life like a guillotine above me.

    I just wanted to get paid for something I'm passionate about, but I can't even get interviews. What do I do?

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    EDIT: Thank you all for your feedback and I will do everything I can to communicate with those of you who have offered help. These responses have lifted my spirits, so many of you willing to help a total stranger. It may take me a few days, but I will be in touch and I will keep trying.

    For those wondering, it was a General Assembly bootcamp and I live in the Greater Denver Area, Colorado. I have a GitHub and portfolio website with a few projects hosted on heroku.

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    Best sites to practice programming? (i.e. coding exercises)

    Posted: 31 Oct 2019 09:33 PM PDT

    I've been looking for sites to practice different programming languages but I don't know which one is best.

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    Should i continue to learn programming with my health issue?

    Posted: 31 Oct 2019 03:09 PM PDT

    I have been learning python for 3 months and its pretty fun and i enjoy it a lot, but i stopped for quite some times now because of my health issues.

    [This](https://www.reddit.com/r/jobs/comments/dp9qm7/half_disabled_looking_for_some_career_advice/) will give you an overview of what im going through right now...

    Anyone is in the same situation or worse than me and still manage to success to learn programming without any serious impact to your life? Should i continue?

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    What Is GSOC (Google Summer Of Code) ?

    Posted: 01 Nov 2019 12:06 AM PDT

    What is GSOC(Google Summer of Code) ? : GSOC is an international level program in which students from universities all over the world participate to develop open source software and get paid for it. Google has been organizing this event since 2005 so that students can get hands-on experience with the software industry. Major objective of this program is to make students familiar with open source community. I hope you get a slight info about What is GSOC(Google Summer of Code) ?

    Some Basic Rules of GSOC

    • The student participating must be 18 or above.
    • The student must belong to an accredited university.
    • The student who have participated as a student in past cannot re-appear in the program.
    • The student must be eligible to work in the country he/she resides in during the program .

    For complete article refer to this Link .

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    Pitfalls when learning programming

    Posted: 31 Oct 2019 01:08 PM PDT

    This is just a story for newbies like me to help them when they're stumped. I'm learning C at the moment. My first encounter with programming. I've been at it for quite a while. So I tackle an exercise stating: "Create a new project that asks for the answer to a yes-or-no question with a press of the Y or N key, either upper- or lowercase. Ensure that the program responds properly when neither a Y nor N is pressed." Simple, no? Took me about ten minutes to write a programme to do that. Bit of trial-and-error with debugging and so on, still it doesn't work. I google, it looks right, but won't work. I give up and look at the solution: and I am amazed to find that the solution is identical to what I wrote. Still, it wont work. Then I go through the code with a ruler, line by line. And what do I discover? In the "else if" iteration, I had 'Y' and 'y' instead of 'N' and 'n'. As simple as that. Changed the y's to n's and voila! the programme works. So the moral of the story is that I had in fact solved the problem quite quickly, I was able to write the correct code and syntax, BUT I was sloppy with the n's and y's. Never give up.

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    Newbie - how many programming languages should one know?

    Posted: 31 Oct 2019 07:59 AM PDT

    Hello all! I came across this sub and wondered if people could give me some real world advice on programming languages.

    Some background - I finished a biology lab-based PhD recently and got into a job in public health statistics where I have to use R every day (I had zero R skills, zero programming/programming language skills of any kind!) and after getting through the first terrifying month I realised I actually really enjoyed developing those skills.

    As a result (after 5 months of working with R), I decided I'd try and self-learn another language as a hobby outside of work (since R seems quite statistics based and I wanted to develop even more skills!). After googling around and searching for resources etc. I settled on Python and have been doing ~2 hours per day. I've just been using some books (python crash course and automate the boring stuff) and I plan to do the MITx course and maybe a course on Udemy as well. Then hopefully I'll be able to work on small challenges from other websites etc. The books have a game project, data analysis project, and web app project. To be honest I'm excited to learn all of these areas!

    Although this is just a hobby, I'm hoping to keep it up pretty religiously while I work my current job, as well as if I return to academia to postdoc. And potentially in 5-10 years I'd have pretty decent programming skills! But I'm wondering, once I'm very confident with Python, should I be moving on to learning others? For example are most people in this field competent with loads of languages, such as python, java, C# and PHP? Or do people generally specialise in one? I'll definitely stick to just Python for a good while as I'm not from a computer science background and do not want too much confusion! Just thinking to future plans for skill dev!

    Thank you for any advice!

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    Building app

    Posted: 31 Oct 2019 11:45 PM PDT

    Articles claim Snapchat used python, objective c, php, and cocoa touch. How is the possible? Like can you use python with php, highly doubt it? So my question is how can you put together code with different languages to build an app?

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    Difference between front-end and back-end programming

    Posted: 31 Oct 2019 04:23 PM PDT

    I'm currently learning python for my computer science class at university and was interested in what the difference between front-end and back-end programming is. I am interested in the computer science field and wanted to know the different routes and options that were available.

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    I feel so happy! I got my function to work on my own!!

    Posted: 01 Nov 2019 12:20 AM PDT

    I am overwhelmed with joy! I'm learning to code in python and one of my projects was to make a function which counts the number of prime numbers up to a given number. It took me 5 hours with back and forth to finally come up with a code that worked and I'm so happy that I didn't give up or ask for help and kept pushing myself. When it finally worked, I was jumping like an idiot and my mom thought I lost it haha. I know this sounds dumb since for some of you the problem might be easy but I just wanted to share this small success with all of you! My code is below so feel free to criticise so I can learn. Thank you!! 

    def count_primes(num): mylist = [] mainlist = list(range(2,num)) if num == 2: print(1) else: for i in range(2,num): for k in range(2,num): if i%k != 0 or i/k == 1: continue else: if i in mylist: continue else: mylist.append(i) print(len(mainlist) - len(mylist))
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    Foot in the Door: Self Taught Engineer Journey

    Posted: 31 Oct 2019 06:12 PM PDT

    I released a free eBook today on Product Hunt. Its about the steps I took after graduating with an art degree to transition into tech and software development.

    In the book you will learn:

    How to adopt the programmers mindset to tackle difficult coding challenges

    Strategies to help figure out the best coding resources for you

    What kinds of problems you are likely to face at different stages of your journey

    How to calibrate your bullshit detector to avoid abusive managers

    Ways to solidify your knowledge by teaching and mentoring others

    Coping with imposter syndrome and transition anxiety

    Options for learning to code with limited time at your disposal

    It is basically what I wish I had when I was starting out learning to code on my own. I hope it helps!

    You can get the book with the link below

    https://www.producthunt.com/posts/foot-in-the-door

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    Major in computer science or seek a minor in computer science.

    Posted: 31 Oct 2019 09:23 PM PDT

    So i am currently on my first semester as a computer science major but I'm starting to realize this is all self learned and I feel like I'm wasting my time sitting through a lecture.

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    Please help me with the rand operator and this Monte Carlo problem

    Posted: 31 Oct 2019 10:58 PM PDT

    I am horribly confused by how I'm supposed to get those outputs listed below. My current code is also below the instructions. How do I set up the 2 x 2 square within the rand operator? I'm also completely stuck on how to even find the areas with the random darts.

    Problem 1: (Monte Carlo Experiments)
    The Monte Carlo method is used in modeling a wide-range of physical systems at the forefront
    of scientific research today. Let's consider the problem of estimating the area of the region
    x^2 + 2y^2 ≤ 1 by utilizing the Monte Carlo method. This region is enclosed by a blue ellipse,
    which is inscribed in a 2 × 2 red square (shown in the figure).
    The experiment simply consists of throwing darts on this figure completely at random (meaning that every point in the red square has an equal chance of being hit by the dart). You
    keep throwing darts at random. All of the darts fall within the square, but not all of them
    fall within the ellipse. If you throw darts completely at random, this experiment estimates
    the ratio of the area of the ellipse to the area of the square, by counting the number of darts
    within each area.
    Program this Monte Carlo method to compute the area of the blue ellipse using different
    numbers of darts. For each experiment, use N darts where N = 10, 10^2
    , · · · , 10^6
    , and output
    the estimated area and the corresponding numerical error |estimated area−exact area|. The
    exact area for the ellipse is given by
    sqrt(2)/2 times pi ≈ 2.22144146907918.
    A successful run of your code may look like:
    # darts: 10 estimated area = 2.40000 error = 0.17856
    # darts: 100 estimated area = 2.16000 error = 0.06144
    # darts: 1000 estimated area = 2.18000 error = 0.04144
    # darts: 10000 estimated area = 2.23680 error = 0.01536
    # darts: 100000 estimated area = 2.21072 error = 0.01072
    # darts: 1000000 estimated area = 2.22037 error = 0.00107

    This is my code so far:

    double Area_Ellipse(double c) {

    double Area\_square = 4 \* c \* c; double area; double N; double totaldarts;

    ​

    cout << "# darts: "; cin >> N; int count = 0; for (int k = 1; k < N; k++) { totaldarts = pow(10, k); for (int i = 1; i <= totaldarts; i++) { double x = -c + 2 \* c \* 1.0 \* rand() / RAND\_MAX; double y = -c + 2 \* c \* 1.0 \* rand() / RAND\_MAX; if ((x\*x) + 2 \* (y\*y) <= 1) {

    count++;

     } } } area = (4 \* count) / totaldarts; return area;

    ​

    }

    ​

    int main()

    {

    double a, b; //cout << "Please input a and b (<=5): " << endl; //cin >> a >> b; double c = 5.0; double count; double Area = Area\_Ellipse(c);

    ​

    cout << Area << endl;

    ​

    }

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    Hi, am using codeblocks because a book I bought uses codeblocks, but the codeblocks version is way newer....

    Posted: 31 Oct 2019 12:49 PM PDT

    ...and I keep getting from codeblocks that the build has not been built, yet. Am not sure what is going on. The book is C programming absolute beginner's guide.

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    Newbie - I don't know how to use my codes outside Pycharm.

    Posted: 31 Oct 2019 10:08 AM PDT

    I am new to the programing comunity, so if I say something that may sound a bit dumb, I'm sorry. I started learning python recently, and i'm using pycharm as my IDE. The problem is: I don't know how to use my programs outside Pycharm. I would realy like a bit of help. Thanks!

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    Programming for Economics

    Posted: 31 Oct 2019 09:36 AM PDT

    Hi all,

    I am currently studying economics and law and I would like to learn to program to be able to do some (large-scale) data analysis for economics. What books, videos or studying materials would you suggest to me? If you have some courses to suggest to me, please let me know.

    As a side note to the mods,

    If this isn't the correct subreddit for this question, please, instead of removing my post redirect me to another subreddit and I will delete this post myself.

    If there has already been such a question, I would appreciate it if the link of the thread could be sent to me.

    ​

    Thanks for reading,

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    What's the best hosting site to upload a web development portfolio?

    Posted: 31 Oct 2019 10:19 AM PDT

    Or should you just use Github for all types of portfolios?

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    So I was just denied C++ training by my company. What is the best free online C++ course/training?

    Posted: 31 Oct 2019 12:00 PM PDT

    I was told that I cannot join the training because I am a contractor not a permanent employee. The training included C++ 98 till C++ 20 and was a 2 day course. What is the best free online C++ training that I can use to improve my skills?

    Edit: I am an experienced C++ programmer.

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    Does anyone use Anki for memorising concepts?

    Posted: 31 Oct 2019 02:22 PM PDT

    I've been using it for languages, but I wondered if there were any good pre-made flashcards for programming concepts. I am learning C#. Just curious.

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    I can program... but how do I develop software?

    Posted: 31 Oct 2019 03:32 AM PDT

    Hey, everyone!

    I'll try to keep this short and to the point: despite programming as a hobbyist for the last 8 or so years, I'm having some issues advancing my skills. I know how to program, but not how to properly develop software. The projects/programs that I've made in the past all work just fine, but I feel like each one is a patchwork monster of code given life only by the grace of sheer determination and a bit of luck. In particular, I know that I probably need to focus more on design patterns and program architecture, but I've found it difficult to know when/how to apply those general concepts to my specific needs/implementations.

    Similarly, I know that I need to work on learning how to properly write (meaningful) tests. However, when I look at examples from tutorials/books, I just don't see how to properly apply those concepts to my own projects.

    Any guidance, advice, books/tutorials, etc. would be greatly appreciated!

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    Generating a random number based on inputs

    Posted: 31 Oct 2019 08:53 PM PDT

    I am trying to create a program based on an input MAX, input MIN, and input number of random numbers. ex: min=1, max=3, number of #'s=5. output: 1,2,3,3,5

    Code so far: https://gist.github.com/txnug/d132ab73685d62eaef952167c5222700

    I know that I am pretty much missing all of the program, but I am unsure how to write the two functions here. One obviously is for the generating the random number, where as the second one would be for receiving the min, max, and # of rand numbers. Also generating the random outputs.

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    Understanding CPU cache

    Posted: 01 Nov 2019 12:03 AM PDT

    Hi. Long stoty short - i know some things about CPU cache, but i don't understand one thing - isn't it used by ALL the programs: there are like OS, JS interpreter from opened browser, music player, messenger, tons of daemons and my very useful program and all of them rewrite cache! Isn't it pointless to do any kind of cache optimizations if it will be immidietely rewritten? The whole idea of hardware caching looks weird to me because it feels like there is no way for a program to have it's data saved in cache as there are hundreds of processes trying to do the same. Maybe it's more realistic for L3 cache due to the size, but is it for L1 tho? I guess there's just some conceptual misunderstanding from my side, so please enlighten me.

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    Radix tree struggle

    Posted: 31 Oct 2019 04:19 PM PDT

    I try long time to learn radix tree I search on internet examples but there is not so much good articles. I want to find some good explain how to do this because want make router based on radix tree

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    Docker Container as a service?

    Posted: 31 Oct 2019 04:01 PM PDT

    I don't know if this is the right subreddit for this question so feel free to tell me if it isn't. I'm currently building an App for schools were they can mange some paperwork related stuff. Anyway, the Server for the app should be hostable by the schools themselves, I thought docker container could be usefull because it simplifies the setup process. So my questions are:

    1. How can I implement an update of the containers if I create a new version?

    2. I want to use a software licensing api to regulate access and gain some money (e.g. cryptolens.io, Netlicensing.com, cryptolex.com), but can this be problematic if I update the container?

    Edit: 2.2: Is the way using licenses really usefull or should I do it via stripe or similar service and another way?

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    Where to learn C++?

    Posted: 31 Oct 2019 07:35 PM PDT

    When I was in college we learned java, and I hated it but i think it was because of my professor. I want to get back into programming to see if its something that I would actually enjoy doing. What websites have good resources and teachers for me to learn C++ from?

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