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- Guide on how to start building a portfolio site!
- Experience at a boot camp (so far)
- My first day as a junior dev
- Watching me teach myself?
- Journey of C code to binary
- If I don't have a college degree, should I stay away from learning ML / Data Science?
- How would i do this?
- Best Udemy Courses to Take?
- Good resources on starting to learn systems programming
- Recently joined company need help to learn the existing project faster
- The Anxiety of Asking for Help
- I'm trying to learn to code bots for discord using javacord but something doesn't work
- How do I get started with operating systems
- What to use for online bet with friends
- Proper indexing of MySQL DB
- I need help with arrays.
- Why can I pass one parameter in the fadin() function?
- So I am a confused soul trying to learn programming on my own.
- Language question
- Adjacency matrices and lists for undirected and unweighted graphs
- Push and Pop operations for implementing 2 stacks in one array
- Community college freshman this fall, goal is to earn a CS degree. How to best prepare ahead of time?
- How much company time do you as a developer spend studying?
- This feels so convoluted and difficult. (C++ Primer)
| Guide on how to start building a portfolio site! Posted: 22 Jun 2021 09:15 AM PDT Hey guys, it's me again. I received a lot of dms and emails asking about how they should build their portfolio site, so I decided to write a guide for it. Check the article out! [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Experience at a boot camp (so far) Posted: 22 Jun 2021 11:25 PM PDT I will have a disclaimer down below, but before I get started I should note that the purpose of this post is partial rant to get stuff off my chest, and partial tips for people looking into boot camps (although there are a lot of good posts already here). If you're looking for the tips, skip more towards the bottom since I want to end this on a higher note. So let's get the disclaimers out of the way: - This is my experience 5 weeks into a 12 week boot camp. I am not trying to dissuade anyone from attending one, just make sure that you 100% know what you want to do and shop around to find the boot camp right for you (this will come up as a tip later as well) - Most of my misgivings are about the instructor, who is swapping out after this week. According to our mentor, the person that will be with us for the remainder of the course is excellent, so hopefully I will update this with good news after some time has passed. - A lot of this also boils down to my own personal motivation levels. Everyone is different, and I am working on trying to keep my fire lit. I have a lot of areas to work on though, but know that I am still trying and I don't want to give up. My Experience: Like many others, I quit my job to refocus my life and try something different. In high school my dad was really adamant about me learning programming (really anything dealing with computers), and part of my decision was looking back fondly on those courses and how much I enjoyed building my own website and whatnot. So, 11 years later, I figured I would finally take his advice and dive into it. Being in the military and coming off of a deployment, one of my soldiers told me about VET TEC, which pays for veterans to attend coding boot camps, so I figured "why not?" And now I'm regretting it. To clarify, I'm not regretting refocusing my life into programming. All things considered, despite being only 5 weeks into it, I don't mind it. This is the most I've had to use my brain since leaving college, which in it's own right is a nice feeling. The part that I'm regretting is not doing enough research and diving into it not fully knowing what I'm getting into. I picked my boot camp based on location (the main campus being reasonably close by) and it being remote. I figured if I had any issues, I could just drive to the campus and get it resolved, or I would be nearby fellow students so we can collaborate. Little did I know that they would put me in a class with only 2 other students (one being in Hawaii), a teacher that only teaches this part time and isn't on campus, and a mentor that is rarely apart of the class. Granted, we started off with 5 students total, but two dropped out before the first week ended. Definitely not what I was initially expecting. As for the school itself, this is where I really think I messed up at. I initially signed up for the JS Full Stack program, however after doing the precourse work and the interview, they ended up putting me in the C#/.NET Full Stack program, both being 12 weeks long. I don't know how I passed the interview to be honest, since I had just gotten off of work and was tired/brain dead so I thought for sure I botched it, but I still got in. In the process of writing this, I'm now wondering if the only reason I got in was because there were only 4 students in the C# class and they needed a minimum amount in order to justify the class. Regardless, I got in. First day I was already regretting it after seeing my first instructor spend half of the 3 hour class fixing his own code. By the end of the first week though it got better, 2 students dropped out and I felt like I was learning. Then the instructor left. And we got our current one. The course went south HARD after this. Our mentor finally showed himself, and after a week and a half he sent us a message on Discord saying even he can't deal with our instructor. All of us messaged our VA rep (we're all vets) about how we aren't satisfied with him, and the response we got back was "he has two masters, so obviously he knows what he's doing". The majority of classes we end up feeling more lost than we were before the class started, and we never know what will be taught that day. He skipped weeks in the syllabus, yet expected us to know things that were supposed to be taught in the weeks that were skipped. One of the students got so fed up with this that he stopped doing the assignments altogether, blatantly telling the instructor that he'll do them when we're supposed to do them. Both the other students and the mentor really feel bad for me. They at least have a background in programming in some way (one student having career experience but learning something new and the other having done 3 1/2 years of Bachelors learning), so in their minds if they're confused, how is a beginner going to know what the hell is going on? I am thankful to have their support though, since they've really kept me motivated to keep going. I will say that out of all this though, the biggest thing I'm feeling is fear. We're 5 weeks into this learning about database frameworks and how to build a sign-in register, yet my knowledge-level is still stuck in week 2. Last week I actually did reach out to a local company to ask for advice and get some insight, and the woman in charge of the development department was even dumbfounded at my approach. She didn't want to discourage me, but she did tell me that someone starting from no-knowledge to work-ready programmer in 12 weeks just didn't seem grounded in reality. This actually got me motivated to start new approaches, buying a few Udemy courses and basically starting over, however that fire burnt out immediately after starting that day's class and having to listen to my instructor. The fear though is that I will stick through this course, get help with my resume, get into the recruiters office and get asked basic questions that I will botch. Only time will tell though. Ending and Tips If you're looking into a coding boot camp, here are some things that I wish I had done: - Look at your options and make sure you pick the school best suited for what you want. - Do a lot of research at different programming options. So far in this course the only time I've really enjoyed it was when we were building a website. If I had played around, researched and decided being a Web Dev was where I would be happier, I would've picked a school for that instead of databases. Even then, in C# you can build games with Unity, so if you're interested in that pick a school for that. Know exactly what aspect of programming you would be happy with. - Spend a lot of time on different sites playing around with different code. This kind of goes into the tip above, but there's a reason why a lot of people recommend self teaching. Even in this school I'm in, I've spent the majority of my time on Google. Everything I know now is basically self taught. - Reach out before making the leap. I wish I would've joined the Discord servers I'm in or taken a look at this sub-Reddit before I decided on going to a boot camp. Talk to people that have done a boot camp, talk to people that are self taught, talk to people that have gone to schools. Call different companies and see what they're looking for and get advice. - Have a goal. I learned pretty quickly that I was in this for the wrong reasons. Don't go into this looking for a easy cash grab. Know what you want to do. Write down what type of game you want to make, what problem you want to solve via a program, what type of website you want to build. Work on these as you learn. I took the leap before having a plan in place, and I'm still lost in my goals. And that's it. I am looking at some feedback, especially from those that have gone through a boot camp before. How did you stay motivated during it? When you reached that "I don't want to do this anymore" stage, how did you convince yourself to stick it out? Thank you all for reading, and hopefully I explained everything well enough. It's late, and I'm tired. If there's anything you think I should clarify (besides the name of the school, which I'd like to keep secret at least until I graduate), please let me know and I'll try to answer them in the morning between moments of smashing my head on my keyboard trying to solve the current assignment. [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 22 Jun 2021 01:11 PM PDT I come from a self taught java background primarily spring boot and sql databases. My company moved me laterally as a junior dev working with react.js and node.js. I spent all day today paired programming working on a simple ticket and man, I feel overwhelmed. The code base seems massive to me, or at least so much larger than anything I've ever worked on. I feel a bit lost because I'm having trouble understanding some of the JavaScript syntax as well. But all that aside I did learn a lot today. The word of the day today for me and my partner was memoizing. He also had never used it before so we both were learning together. How long does it typically take people to feel confident in their role, especially as a junior? [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 23 Jun 2021 12:06 AM PDT Would anyone be interested in watching me (advanced beginner) live stream myself teaching myself to code. I think it'd be fun to do and to create a bit of a community of beginners to progress together. [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 22 Jun 2021 08:49 PM PDT Sorry for the weird title but I want to make sure I understand how C code converts to computer instructions
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| If I don't have a college degree, should I stay away from learning ML / Data Science? Posted: 22 Jun 2021 06:54 PM PDT It seems like a longshot to get a job in that field without one. [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 22 Jun 2021 09:47 PM PDT How do you measure the time between actions? So if i have a button that i click, then i wait 7,42 seconds, i want it to count how long that took and in this case it was 7,42 seconds. the next time i click the button it might of taken 10 seconds and then i want it to show that on the website. i hope that this makes sense, it was quite hard to explain but i really need to know how i would do that. is there anyway to do this with javascript? if so, how? and if not, how? i've only been programming for a few weeks so TRY to keep it simple. Thanks :) [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 22 Jun 2021 04:48 PM PDT I am currently doing SheCodes Plus React. I just started learning about React yesterday and although the professor says we can start job searching afterwards, I don't feel ready at all. I didn't know coding prior to taking these workshops and I feel like I still don't know what I'm doing although I did create a weather app. I feel like there's still so much lingo and things I still don't know about software engineering. I just learned that algorithms are a thing we should learn. What other things am I missing that I don't know I should be learning? It stresses me sometimes. But anyway, what Udemy courses do you recommend I take for someone who knows some basic HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and hopefully React soon. [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Good resources on starting to learn systems programming Posted: 22 Jun 2021 07:01 PM PDT I have quite some programming knowledge of c and java and others butwould like to learn more about systems programming [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Recently joined company need help to learn the existing project faster Posted: 23 Jun 2021 02:28 AM PDT Hello guys i have joined a company 4 months ago and as for the small things i'm doing great but at overall project i'm lacking too much i think, The project is not really big it's in codeigniter and perl. I'm good at PHP but i'm lacking to understand some components. Any of u guys have any tips to learn the existing project faster ? Thank you for your time [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Anxiety of Asking for Help Posted: 22 Jun 2021 05:40 PM PDT Hey nerds, I'm still working away on my skills in preparation for applying for jobs soon, but something I keep thinking about and obsessing over is causing me some anxiety. I've never been great at dealing with employer or more senior colleague expectations. Like everyone, I want to meet if not exceed the expectations of people I work with. At the end of the day I want to impress them rather than be hinderance. I find it very difficult to ask for help or seek assistance too often as I feel like I'm revealing how useless I am or perhaps haven't tried hard enough to crack it myself. I'll spend a long time fighting uphill battles before I'll put my hand up and ask for help. My nightmare scenario is starting out as a junior dev at a new job and being asked to do something I'm only 25% sure of. Being keen to impress and get stuck in, I take it on and end up realising I'm gonna need to ask a lot of questions - I can feel the anxiety rising. So then the loop of being stuck but not wanting to bother people, wasting time being stuck but then not wanting to let on I've just wasted a lot of time, then finally having a mental breakdown. Does anyone have any mental tricks or methods they've found help get them out of this mode of thinking? How do I put my pride aside and just focus on asking for help and learning? [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| I'm trying to learn to code bots for discord using javacord but something doesn't work Posted: 23 Jun 2021 02:21 AM PDT I tried to do something simple using reaction listeners, and I couldn't figure out how to remove listeners. I used: api.addReactionRemoveAllListeners(); But it says that I need to write an argument between the parenthesis, but I don't know what the argument needs to be Can someone please help me? [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| How do I get started with operating systems Posted: 22 Jun 2021 10:10 PM PDT I am into operating systems and low level programming in general can anyone suggest me how can I get started. [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| What to use for online bet with friends Posted: 23 Jun 2021 01:52 AM PDT Hello, With friend we're making F1 bets, for now we use a shared excel file but we keep having issues. So i wanted to try making it in another way, but i have no idea if it is possible and if it is, how . Basically, what we need is a shared website/app where we'll be able to log in (eventually make different rooms), add our prognostics on a sheet it will calculate all scores (like we do now on excel). Also it's important that we can add rule to modify cases color if some text are insides it. I've code a little bit with python (as much as required for all the scores rules i think), so i might not be able to handle a too complicated things. If anyone has an advice, it would be welcome ! Thanks PS: I thought about doing an android app but some of us use Apple so we can't [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 23 Jun 2021 01:51 AM PDT I'm building a webapp which uses YouTube API and get all latest videos uploaded for a certain topic say football or politics. Then fields of the videos such as title, description, video_id, published_at are stored in a MySQL, from where the user can query using the frontend and the query results should be in latest order. I'm wondering what could be the indices for this DB since this would be at large scale [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 23 Jun 2021 01:35 AM PDT Hey Id like to make it possible for my programs user to keep adding numbers into an array, until one of two conditions are met. I have already made an array with options that the user can choose from. User stops adding numbers willingly by pressing enter for an example, OR until the combined sum of these added numbers goes over a certain MAX number (this would print an error message and cancel the addition of numbers and make the user start again). Im not asking for a complited code, just some links to places where I could find some helpful info to make this happen. I've tried googling this stuff up, but I can't find any good examples. Thanks for the help! PS: Im using C [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Why can I pass one parameter in the fadin() function? Posted: 23 Jun 2021 01:12 AM PDT Is the number of actual parameters and form parameters the same or different? Why can I pass one parameter in the fadin() function? [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| So I am a confused soul trying to learn programming on my own. Posted: 23 Jun 2021 12:49 AM PDT A few months back, for whatever unknown reasons, I decided to learn new things. I probably just want to escape my hectic work life to stop thinking about staff (and their personal issues), clients and bad sales in this pandemic. I tried to find more stressful things to do so I won't feel too stressed with my current stresses (I know it's weird). Then I decided to learn HTML and python at the same time. But because of work, I have to focus on one at a time. So now I am doing HTML and CSS. Where should I go now? Am I supposed to continue with Python? Or Java script? Or how? My goal is that should one day I want to start blogging and stuff I can do myself. Annnndddd, I bought a crypto domain for fun. So the next question is - if I were to do anything with my crypto domain, what kind of language should I learn? Can I use HTML and CSS to develop my own website on this domain? I have zero background in programming. See. I am so in the dark. [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 22 Jun 2021 05:12 PM PDT I was a programmer in a previous life (80s -- we're talking Pascal, db2 et. al for small office). I'm now still gainfully employed in a totally different field and not looking for a job in programming. But I do want to dabble, if that's the right word. Maybe for my personal projects. Also maybe for some web development or maybe a desktop application, just to bring back that sense of "hey I can build something." . And I want to get a sense of how programming has changed and want to build good fundamentals, etc. What's 2 or 3 languages to start considering? Go? Swift? Kotlin? (I want to stay away from C or C ++ or Javascript). Rust? [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Adjacency matrices and lists for undirected and unweighted graphs Posted: 23 Jun 2021 12:38 AM PDT For the following graph need to verify my adjacency matrix and list below are correct. Adjacency Matrix
Adjacency List
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| Push and Pop operations for implementing 2 stacks in one array Posted: 23 Jun 2021 12:35 AM PDT Need to explain how to implement two stacks in one array A[1..n] in such a way that neither stack overflows unless the total number elements in both stacks together **exceeds n** and I need to show my work for the new PUSH,POP operations for both stack1 and stack2. example usage: PUSH(x,A,1): push x into stack1. POP(A,2): pop from stack2. **My Approach:*\* I have decided to call the stacks first and second. Next I set, first.top = 0 and second.top = n + 1. Essentially, stack first uses the first part of the array and stack second uses the last part of the array. In stack first, the top is the rightmost element of first. In stack second, the top is the leftmost element of second **Algorithm for push** PUSH(A,x) **Algorithm for pop** POP(A) **Is there something wrong with it? or does this not suffice?*\* [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 22 Jun 2021 11:42 PM PDT Title is, summed up, essentially the question at hand. I'm an 18 year old who is planning on getting an associates in 'general' engineering and transferring to a four year school to get a degree in computer science. For context, and mostly why I'm asking this: I am not horribly great at math, and also have not taken the toughest classes. It wasn't really until late junior year I started taking school seriously and researching what I actually wanted to do in higher education, so until then I didn't take the toughest classes. Finally senior year I decided to try a little harder, took pre-calc 1st semester and regular calc 2nd semester. That being said, I'll have no AP experience with stats or calc going into college, which worries me since everything I've heard about CS is that it has it's fair share of math struggles. So, when I initially asked myself how to best prepare myself (or get ahead I suppose) for earning a CS degree, I wasn't sure what the best plan was. I also have zero programming/coding skills. I was originally going to focus on basically just learning to code, but after reading a bit it seems focusing on math might be a smarter choice? Would love to hear what people would advise given my circumstances. I've recently quit my job to enjoy some free time before college, so I've got plenty to spare working on preparing myself for university. TL;DR - Going to be college freshman this fall, end goal is a CS degree (doing 2 years at community and transferring). Not great at math but willing to try my best to overcome that. Should I focus primarily on 'learning programming', math skills, or a healthy mixture of both? [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| How much company time do you as a developer spend studying? Posted: 22 Jun 2021 02:57 PM PDT I have recently started, what I consider to be, my first real developer job. I have recently realized that I might have the wrong approach. My job is a junior position, however, I feel pressured during my shift hours to focus solely on just pushing tickets. Even trying to understand something, I try and go with the quickest path to doing so, rather than just sitting down and comitting to actually understanding better what I'm working with. So how do divide your time when it comes to learning? Do you just realize you've hit a brick wall and decide to start pivoting to more of a learning mode rather than active development? Or do you to try to resereve your learning for your off hours? [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| This feels so convoluted and difficult. (C++ Primer) Posted: 22 Jun 2021 08:31 AM PDT I've been studying through C++ Primer 5th Edition for a few days now, and I've only gotten to page 68 (Const. Pointers and Type Aliases), because I have to scrutinize every single sentence in this book before I even begin to understand the flow or logic of some of it. C++ is the first programming language I'm attempting to get down as much as I can, and a lot of it seems so unnecessary and convoluted, to the point where much of it gets foggy and buried in the layers of logic. Should I be using a certain learning method or mentality to help myself order the information, or should I just take everything at the "how" value, and ignore the "why" until I understand through practice? Thanks for the answers in advance. [link] [comments]  |
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