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Things I've learned throughout my 5 - 6 years as a programmer.
- StackOverflow is full of assholes.
- CMS's are for weaklings.
- The best feeling about waking up in the morning is figuring out how to solve that error in your code.
- You no longer think about normal people things. Your mind is full of code.
- You're practically a computer.
- ALWAYS backup and save your stuff or you WILL regret it. Enable autosave if possible.
- RIP your social life (if your friends don't know squat about programming)
- Darkness is better.
- Being a programmer is amazing.27 -
Me: Alright, let's code!
School: Psst. Hey.
Me: What?
School: Remember that assignment from last week?
Me: Oh god please no.
School: Yeah, it's tomorrow. And you have a Geography exam next Monday. You love geography, right?
Me: Please, no, I want to become a programmer, not a--
School: Shush... It's okay. Programming can wait. You want a to get a job, right? What would they say when they see your poor Geography?
Me: That doesn't even... Okay, fine, I'll do it...
* two days later *
Me: Fuck me! Finally! Let's do some coding now.
School: Psst. Hey.16 -
"Programming is like writing a book... except if you miss a single comma on page 156 the whole thing makes no damn sense" - unknown11
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When you're programming instead of sleeping but you would like to rest the same. Please tell me how...
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the best way to learn programming is not by just reading books and coding basic examples. it is to take up a project which seems impossible and start doing it piece by piece, with the help of Google and stack overflow13
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Friend: Hey, I managed to build my own UI.
Me: That's great, which programming language did you use?
Friend: Filezilla.
Me: No, I mean the language. The language you code in to build your UI ?
Friend: Notepad ++
KILL ME.11 -
Something helpful if you've just started learning programming it'll help you understand most popular programming languages why it's used and how much you can expect as a payment.
https://i.imgur.com/MD1JweO.png
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There are two type of people
1. Use programming as a source to gain stress
2. Use programming as a source to
remove stress8 -
To the guy who said that java is the best programming language. Sorry if it has been posted before.
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Music for programming.
For the ones who didn't know about this website, enjoy!
Sharing is caring :)
http://musicforprogramming.net
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That moment when you realise f(x)=x²
that you did in 4th grade and now
Function(x){
return x*x;
}
....😯😮😲😱😵...
You realise that Everyone has been doing programming all their life....6 -
Programming is not knowing some language very well. It's about how you solve complex problems with the right tools for the job.5
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I think programming is definitely an art. The biggest difference between programming and other artforms like painting is that you don't want the people who look at your code to wonder what you meant with it. Just my 2 cents.2
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In programming what is the difference between an expert programmer and a noob??
- they both Google when they're stuck but expert knows what he's searching for and noob learns about what he's searching for!!9 -
It wasn't my curiosity that introduced me to programming. Actually, it was my mother.
It was about six years ago, when I'd told her I'd like to make video-games, like all kids do. She didn't just nod and go about her way. She found a free course that taught programming to kids my age and immediately enrolled me. Looking back, it was surely the best thing she'd done for me, because it gave me a purpose and a future to look forward to.
The course was interesting. We learned the basics of C++, then moved on to harder topics like algorithms and data types. But more and more, I was beginning to feel left behind. Like I didn't belong there. It didn't help that I only programmed on the course, with no practice back home.
I felt scared of the future. Thought I didn't have what it takes to become a programmer. I might have broken the last straw when I started playing truant and went to McDonald's to pass the time. Because every time I did go to the course, I felt stupid and anxious. So I simply skipped.
Time passed. I got more depressed, became more antisocial, my self-esteem took a nosedive. And when it comes to depression, people always seek an escape path.
I got my escape in fiction. Started reading books, tried writing stories, and it got to the point where I asked my mother if I could become a writer and not a programmer.
And guess what? She said, "Do what brings you happiness. This is your life."
It's funny, that such a silly line stopped and got me to think. Turned out, I didn't program for fun, for myself or for my career. I'd done it for my parents, for their expectations and I was scared that in failing, I'd become a loser in their eyes.
I dropped out of the programming course. Not because it sucked, but because I wasn't going there for myself, but for my parents. But I didn't quit programming. No, I watched countless tutorials, youtube videos, browsed StackOverflow, read some books, coded every day, and now I can say without hesitation, that I love programming. I'm hooked. And I don't want to stop.
If you've read this so far, I'm sorry for my rambling. I will now leave you with only one tip: If you decided to do something, do it for yourself. Forget about parents, expectations, career, future, time or money and do it only because you want to. Because nothing else matters. Only your happiness.7 -
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.2
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Does anyone else not enjoy pair programming? As an introvert who prefers to "work alone" and someone who has to look stuff up frequently, even things I "should know by now", I find pair programming very anxiety-inducing. I'm always wondering if the person I'm programming with thinks I'm an idiot/imposter.8
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What programming has taught me:
Never trust yourself, never trust your code...
And never believe that when it was working in the past, it would work again...3 -
212 millions invested in programming education in Quebec!
Yes!
But wait a sec! What are those fucking screen! And it’s fucking windows 7 you piece of shit! Use fucking ltsp! Costs less money = More teaching!
Poor students, at least they are learning to program
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Why the fuck do people care about age so much?
Unlike other activities, you can be 15 years old and be as good as a senior dev, so why the fuck do you need to degrade me because you found out my age?
I still deliver the promised work, so what the fuck?
As for kids who try to get recognition because they're young and program, well, fuck you too!
Programming isn't about age or maturity, since in this age of tech, anyone can pick up a computer and an internet connection and learn, so why do you feel that younger individuals have less capabilities?
I just had to get that out of me since it pisses me off a fuck load.17 -
Programming has really taught me the art of anger suppression. You just can't be a coder and ill-tempered at the same time
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Programming makes me feel like I am Jack Sparrow I do not completely understand problems, struggle with it and somehow manage to make success out of it ...Ah everyday it's an adventure in the brain1
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If you need a programming language to develop a programming language then how was the first programming language developed?😵11
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Quote dumbledore: "Soon we all have to choose between what is right and what is easy"
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I feel sorry for those students who took computer studies and not having to enjoy a slightest bit of programming 😕3
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-2018-
The goverment says that you must develop using only one language in your entire life
Which programming language would you use? Why?38 -
When you're a freelance web developer with 3 years of experience and they be teaching you basics of programming in college
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Programming is not about learning many languages, it's about making a way to simplify a task. With increasing it's productivity and minimizing task duration.2
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I’ve realized that programming made me so much better at math!
Although I’ve caught myself writing “int x” once in the notebook.2 -
Programming is 10% science, 20% ingenuity, and 70% getting the ingenuity to work with the science.2
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You can always tell how stressed I am while Programming by how much hair is sitting on my desk.
It's become habit to rub my hands through my hair when things ain't going so well3 -
Worst advice about programming...
My discussion with my company sistem admin :
Me : you must always think that users are dumb and will make mistakes (like putting letters when db saves as number)
He : users must learn, if they make such mistakes its their fault.
My claim: I learned early in school to always assume that users are stupid and will always find bugs and exploits by coincidence. So protect your code from bad imput8 -
How many of you learned your programming languages from courses/study and how many of you from just grabbing a project and bullshitting your way through until it stuck17
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Why does this happen?
Whenever I begin with my exams, I think more about Code and Programming!!
😑😑😑5 -
There are two types of programming languages, one that everybody hates and one that nobody uses.
Finally understood this after learning Haskell.1 -
I remember when I was just a child, 6 or 7 I think, my uncle bought a computer and it was a magical thing for me.
When I became a little familiar with it, I told my dad: "I really like to make programs for computer".
And I still like programming.1 -
A lot of my friends have tried to get into programming, for various reasons. The reason why many of them end up quitting it soon is that they don't understand that programming is thinking, not typing.3
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School interferes with programming, programming interferes with school... when will this vicious cycle end?5
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I started programming when I was 18. Now I am 22 and I am programming Machine learning and and AI.
You don’t have to start when your 10 to be the best at it...7 -
The only disadvantages of learning to program at 8 is that even if I'm now in university (with 15), I will get really bored in most classes.
I can tell to the teachers to allow me not to enter to their classes, just like a friend did, but it's really boring, though.
– semester 1:
programming basics (already know).
– semester 2:
object-oriented programming (already know).
– semester 3:
data structures (maybe not boring).
– semester 4:
advanced programming topics (already know).
database basics (already know, really?).
operating systems (already know).
– semester 5:
software engineering basics (already know).
database workshop (already know).
operating systems workshop (maybe not boring).
– semester 6:
software engineering (I don't know).
database management (already know).
web programming (already know).
... and more semesters!
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My first programming experience was in highschool. Within two months I was a better programmer than my teacher.
This just indicates that the people who hire programming teachers need to know what programming is before hiring the wrong person.3 -
I told my lead, "I am creating a new Algorithm" instead of "I am trying to fix this", and instantly I am a programming wizard :D :D :D6
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programming is not a piece of cake that you come and eat.
friend of mine thinks programming is so simple.
fuck you who think its easy it takes hours of dedication6 -
I'm starting to think, that these programming tests that companies give out, are just a way for me to their work... especially when they don't reply.2
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I hate programming
I hate programming
I hate programming
hey, it works!
I love programming
my motivation :)6 -
while reading rebecca & brain's book on object oriented software. I realised that the programmer is a special kind of person. the complexity he can handle, the struggle to implement a system, from input to output, satellite control, AI, robotics, heck, even the planning required for a simple android app, the complexity is overwhelming at first, then you get your jotter and break it down into parts, and you drive yourself to the edge of sanity figuring out an algorithm, then you go over that edge implementing it, but oh that great super hero feeling when you finally get something to work exactly as specified, I'm not sure people in other professions can understand the satisfaction. I'm very young in the whole programmer world, but I'm growing fast, I'm just really grateful programming found me, I mean, can you think of something else you'lld rather do? yeah, me neither.
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how did people here learn programming? interested in hearing your journey from discovery of programming to now.24
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What do you like to listen to while programming? I prefer non-vocal downtempo music, e.g. Solar Fields. At night time I enjoy dark jazz, mostly Bohren & der Club of Gore.14
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Programming is like a Word document, except that if you make a spelling or punctuation error, you get 100 highlights elsewhere which aren't wrong at all and make no sense.
Continuation of https://www.devrant.io/rants/433434 -
When java was facing extinction, during the JavaScript, Node, and reactive programming hype. It did what it had always done. just adapt to the hype and maintain backward compatibility. We can all learn a thing or two from the humble java. It never rushes, it's patient. Be calm and wait before you hype yourself.2
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Hi friends.
I'm 19 years old programmer and working already. My father is 47 years old. He don't know anything about programming yet. When he was young he was good in math.
Today when I came home he said that he would like to learn programming too and help me to do some projects in the future. I know it's kind of late for him to start learning something new, but what do you think, what can I do to help him start programming? What's the startpoint for 47 years old man in the world of programming.
P.S. He tried to learn Java watching online tutorials but couldn't understand anything.10 -
I was wondering, should I learn a second programming language or should I keep learning Java? I was thinking about learning C++ or Python.10
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Should is start competitive programming? Does it improve your coding and algorithm skills? Which websites would you recommend for a beginner?1
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Finished my exam 💪 pretty easy because "programming" meant resolving If statements, language neutral
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Does anyone have that one song which they listen to while programming?
Mine is Harder Better Faster Stronger by daft punk13 -
I think,I should write my own programming language so I'll be more productive on ... stackoverflow !1
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Without requirements or design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file ;)......!
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I encountered some strange programming languages here =>
https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/...
Then scroll to the bottom.6 -
Programmers hating languages different of their own. Programming language is first and mainly a TOOL.
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I think, in a few years programming will be like driving. It will be so easy to learn that almost everyone would be a programmer.3
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Tl;dr coding is awesome, but teaching good programming skills is fundamental. Take some time to teach and help someone in need!
This morning I had to help two of my students who were unable to write a simple program to simulate a random sampling. It reminded me of how helpless I felt when I started out, and how I felt stupid for not getting easy concepts (and now I'm in love with programming). Here on devRant I hear so many stories about bad programming teachers, but it doesn't have to be that way. I'm the most impatient person on this planet, but I love teaching and I wish more people did it. So, go out and spread the word, fellow devRanters!3 -
"Some time ago I wanted to rewrite my old project. I saw code without comments and cried. Cried so much."
Programming teacher in college
People who teach us programming usually write a quicksort every year for 5-10 years. It is sad af :( -
Programming in a nutshell:
"I changed nothing and it now doesn't work. Why?"
"I changed nothing and it now works. Why?" -
Not a rant actually, but what does this community think about Apple's "programming is easy, programming is for everyone, everyone should program"?16
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Arghhh! Reactive programming took away all the fun, but oh well, we can be more lazy now. Functional programming just made a big come back this year.2
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Anyone else take online classes in college for programming and find several of your courses not having lectures and completely relying off a book, even for assignments?
Week X:
Read chapter x
Do end chapter assignments x x, and x -
If no programming languages exist, and you were the first developer, what's the first feature you'd put?2
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Programming is like religion.
- you are making sombody to obey your will
- you have limited amount of resources (churches, processors, RAM, holy items)
- when you torture it, usually it will comply but not in way you are expecting
- smashing nail with hammer is not good idea (you can run out of resources again. Getting new CPU is costly as same as getting new believer)
So, who's in for new Church of Unhandled Exception?1 -
I just heard about "Julia Programming language" where they're kinda combining speed of C and usability of Python into one language. Just wanted to ask how big is it? Does anyone has anything to share on this topic?4
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Longest you've been stuck on a programming related problem where you didn't have anyone that could help you?4
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People keep telling me that fullstack/web/mobile isn't real programming, and only "heavy" stuff like OS/Performence/libraries & SDK/Malware is "real".
I think they are just assholes. But these stuff are cooler than building a CRUD app.
What do you think?2 -
Trying to learn <insert name of programming language>...
Can't find any useful documentation or examples.2 -
Top 5 World’s Most Difficult Programming Languages
https://search.app.goo.gl/Yk8Mm
Never heard of any one of them,
how many u knew?6 -
Programming anxiety is when one of the similar methods could be 1% better in performance and you're stunned by such a tough choice, which one to use/test first.
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A colleague of mine said that functional programming should be banned by law. He finds it so hard and at the same time the only language he knows is JavaScript
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I heard a rumour that India's government is planning to make COW as the official programming language.
https://esolangs.org/wiki/COW
What a time to me alive! /s
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Had so much fun doing crowd-programming to troubleshoot an issue at work yesterday! Because, you know, three is a crowd. ;-)
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Ever tried programming while having serious hayfever..? Welcome to my life today :')
Can't. F***ing. Focus.2 -
Hey guys, just for research:
which programming language would you recommend a non programmer, who wants to learn programming?14 -
https://github.com/HTML-as-programm...
Just gonna drop this here...
(link courtesy of codeproject daily news)1 -
Do you guys know a cool language to get a bit more into functional programming?
Doesn't matter if purely functional or a mashup of functional and imperative programming.
And please a real-world language, let Haskell stay in its Ivory-tower where it belongs.17 -
"Doing this all day leaves you in a state of mild aphasia as you look at people's faces while they're speaking and you don't know they've finished because there's no semicolon."
So funny and true at the same time. A must read for all fellow developers out there. https://gizmodo.com/programming-suc... -
I have failed my computer organization and architecture module because i didn't understand assembly language.
Anyone with links to the best x86 assembly programming please share. -
I am in Nepal and most of the people here don't think functional programming is a best approach ( I personally think it is ) what's your situation?4
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I am a beginner in programming. Started to code some 9 months back. So far I have learnt some basic C, Python(from LPTHW), HTML, CSS, JavaScript(from Coursera). I want to advance my skill. One of my relatives who is a programmer too advices me to learn SQL now and then learn PHP. So according to you what should I do now. I also want to develop my Python skills to using its frameworks so that I can make some real stuffs with that.
Pls suggest me my next move and also tell me from where can I learn these things( free courses could be of more help to me). I want to quickly learn the most of these so that I can make a dynamic website and web apps in the near future.
Thanks in advance!5 -
The evilest programming language one could think of - "Brainfuck"
http://muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/bf/
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