I always laugh when my friends who are in the field for a much longer time than I am are telling me how they used to learn coding. Which was by using books and copying by hand insane amounts of lines. Sometimes the book would have errors in the code and they would spend hours or maybe days, just to realize that actually the code is wrong and they didn't make a mistake. We have it so easy nowadays when it comes to resources.
My first attempt into c from a book ended up with rewriting the basic hello world example as I could not understand what the problem was. I first learned basic.
A year ago I attended a meetup about readable code. This young person was explaining why many code conventions don't help and he was right. Afterwards I asked him how old he was, he said 20 and then in the first time in my life (at 41) I used the "in my times" card and felt so old. In did this to explain to him that there is a reason for many of things here was complaining about.
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I always laugh when my friends who are in the field for a much longer time than I am are telling me how they used to learn coding. Which was by using books and copying by hand insane amounts of lines. Sometimes the book would have errors in the code and they would spend hours or maybe days, just to realize that actually the code is wrong and they didn't make a mistake. We have it so easy nowadays when it comes to resources.
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My first attempt into c from a book ended up with rewriting the basic hello world example as I could not understand what the problem was. I first learned basic.
A year ago I attended a meetup about readable code. This young person was explaining why many code conventions don't help and he was right. Afterwards I asked him how old he was, he said 20 and then in the first time in my life (at 41) I used the "in my times" card and felt so old. In did this to explain to him that there is a reason for many of things here was complaining about.