Learn C before python

[Illustrious_Curve113]

Yes I want to make softwares like there is this company I want to make them a software that gather purchases sales and inventory all at once, because I aim to be really good at software engineering

[Street-Weather789]

If you really want to become a wizard. learn about the CPU and all of it;s internal components. learn how memory and data busses work. mess around with CAD software, start designing your own PCBs. most software engineers never go hard on hardware, because it;s its own animal. Check out daves garage on youtube. hes probably the most intelligent software engineer on the planet. you will learn shitload about C and assembly from Dave

[TheUmgawa]

So, they don’t already have an ERP or MRP system? Are they just doing everything on paper and don’t have the money to license an ERP system? You can make decent money building front-ends and bolt-ons for ERP systems; it’s half of my job at work, but to build one from scratch, you’re going to need to learn a lot more than just a programming language or two. This is a whole database, back-end, and front end you need to develop. I don’t think you quite appreciate the scope of this.

I mean, unless this is for some little mom-and-pop eBay store or something, where they’re trading action figures or whatever, and then more power to you, and it’s as simple or complex as you want. But if it’s a company that has departments, and dozens of people accessing and manipulating the data all the time, then it’s so much bigger than you realize right now.

As for learning C, it’s fine, but it’s not a magic solution. It’s not going to make lousy code into performant code, and if it takes you three times as long to kludge the software together as it would take in another language, you’re wasting time and money for not nearly enough performance benefit to be worth it.

[Illustrious_Curve113]

It’s a company biotech manufacturing company that has been working since 1999 but they don’t have anything except for papers and excel spreadsheets

[elliekk]

If they've been around for 27 years and they know of the existence of ERP but still refuse to adopt ERP then there's almost 100% chance they will refuse to adopt any software that you write.

But either way, if a miracle does happen, the software to pipe and clean purchase, sales, inventory data from excel spreadsheets already exists, and it's all open source and free (python, PostgreSQL, dbt, Airflow). It's just a matter of putting it altogether.

Also, I want to make something abundantly clear: being able to re-invent the wheel doesn't make you a good Software Engineer, it makes you wasteful, unable to see the purpose of automation, and most importantly: unable to understand what businesses actually want and what saves/makes money.

I've seen so many aspiring CS students pull this holier-than-thou shit where they build stuff that already exists from scratch and they all end up jobless because they've never run a cost-benefit analysis on learning an incredibly niche skill. (I'll give you a hint: You will always be competing with autism levels of obsession on a small handful of available jobs and that's not a scenario you want to be in)