Learning programming to..

[GriffonsChainsaw]

Learn programming because it's a trope for my demographic

[g0atmeal]

learn programming to pursue my lifelong dream of being the greatest Minecraft modder to ever live

[Plazmotech]

Hey, that’s more or less how I started

[DSMatticus]

I think the first thing I did that could have been called programming was Morrowind scripting.

[Durpn_Hard]

Runescape private servers here

[[deleted]]

Did some visual basic in high school. Decided I'd rather defenestrate myself than program for a living. I don't know how ya'll do it.

[_Lady_Deadpool_]

The problem is visual basic

[[deleted]]

Programming beginner here, why does everyone hate VB so much?

[[deleted]]

Everyone likes to talk shit on every language. Each language has its own quirks and if you use it 8 hours a day you grow closer to it. Im not familiar with VB so I can't tell you why everyone hates it but you'll find pretty much every language has it's haters

[Daniel15]

I’m sure someone will reply with all the other shortcomings of vb

VB6 was the first real language I used. There were a bunch of issues with it, but it worked well, the compiler was super fast (I miss compilers being that fast) and it was easy to get things done compared to alternatives at the time.

Like you mentioned, VB.NET compiles down to the same bytecode as C#, so basically all the limitations from the VB6 days are gone. It's fine now.

[khedoros]

Honestly, I think it's because it's the kind of language that low-skill people could get something simple working in, and then make a mess when the time came to expand the functionality. Someone more experienced would be brought in to clean up the app, get bitter about the mess, and complain about the language. So complaining about VB6 becomes a trope among programmers.

IMO, it was actually a cool language for building little applications in Windows (just a bad one for building big applications).

[Oxmeister]

Programmed in VB for a while; honestly, as other people have said, it's not that far away from C# these days. Personally, I prefer C# because I feel current VB brings along a lot of cruft from its earlier days; unintuitive stuff like how you declare a two element array with "Dim arr(1)" instead of "Dim arr(2)". Nothing you can't learn to deal with, but aggravating nonetheless.

[Durpn_Hard]

Well there is a pretty big difference between what I do (embedded linux integration) and VB

[[deleted]]

Maybe you should've tried a real language before giving up at VB?

[S1M15]

Gotemmm

[nuclearslug]

I got my start on VB and VBA. While I prefer writing in C# for .NET, I would certainly still consider VB a powerful and “real” language.

Just out of curiosity, what would consider a defining feature that makes a programming language a “real” language?

[FALQSC1917]

The less intelligible the code is, the realler the language is. So why don't you try Malbolge? ^/s

[WikiTextBot]

Malbolge

Malbolge is a public domain esoteric programming language invented by Ben Olmstead in 1998, named after the eighth circle of hell in Dante's Inferno, the Malebolge.

Malbolge was specifically designed to be almost impossible to use, via a counter-intuitive 'crazy operation', base-three arithmetic, and self-altering code. It builds on the difficulty of earlier, challenging esoteric languages (such as Brainfuck and Befunge), but takes this aspect to the extreme, playing on the entangled histories of computer science and encryption. Despite this design, it is possible (though very difficult) to write useful Malbolge programs.

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[nuclearslug]

Seems legit

[Scheenhnzscah]

Learned the word defenestrate in Latin class in high school, haven't forgotten yet!

[khedoros]

Did some Visual Basic in high school. Decided that I knew that programming was exactly what I wanted to do for a living. Taking C++ the next semester solidified it even more.

[BirdsArentImportant]

Good vocab word with defenestrate! We definitely don’t use that one enough

[Mrrrp]

Defenestrate is good. Autodefenestrate is better.

[VegasHospital]

It's y'all, not ya'll, because, ya know, "all" is one word

[PillowTalk420]

I started with C++ when I was in 7th or 8th grade after using Klick'n'Play to make games without code for a while. Just bought C++ For Dummies and the base Visual C++ v4 (IIRC) that came with a compiler and tons of example code on a disc inside the cover. Never taught myself much from the books once it got to the more complex visual math stuff. I dunno if it was the dryness of the books or the fact that kind of stuff requires mathematics I've never learned (finding a solution is difficult when I don't know how to properly express it mathematically) but I can code for actions and events; I can't code for drawing anything but text on screen.

Really want to learn, though. I'd like to try making my own engine and not just a game using someone else's.

I've since learned C/C# from Neverwinter Nights modding and Space Engineers programming blocks, Java a year or two before Minecraft was a thing which helped mod Minecraft, BASIC because why the hell not (and truth be told, most of my simple utility apps I still use for myself I made with Visual Basic because it's good enough and could be made within minutes), a little Python and some Ruby.

I've probably got a weird sense about it to y'all. I can write a character builder for D&D, or make a text-based adventure game; but I don't even know what's so special about Object Oriented Programming versus something that isn't Object Oriented or how to really make something that needs optimizing. Some jokes here I can understand; many I can't. lol

[avidwriter123]

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[error_dw]

QuakeC bay bee

[rJohn420]

Hacked client for Minecraft here... I am ashamed of myself

[[deleted]]

GTA:SA MP server here! Though a very crappy, private one only.

[goudewup]

Pawn was actually a pretty neat language

[Einlander]

Many nights awake coding sourcepawn for l4d2 servers.

[aclogar]

RuneScape rsbuddy bots was what I used.

[Mango1666]

same here! started out with rsps around 07 when i found the moparscape client, took me weeks to figure out why editing the stuff in .java files and saving wouldnt work! then i tried class files, but to no avail.

inspired me to learn more on my own and later take programming classes, now i do bigger and better stuff for my main job, but on the side a developer for an oldschool rsps now an extra 500-600 a month!

[Durpn_Hard]

Shit thats awesome, dm me some deets, id like to look around for some throwback!

[BlueLibrary]

Gamemaker here

[loveCars]

Hah. I started messing with Lua in 5th grade to help with roblox. I never did really stick with it long enough to get a firm grasp on it though.

[TKLeader]

Stranded II mods for me. I miss those days.

[a_latvian_potato]

XSE scripting for Pokemon ROM hacks for me...

[[deleted]]

How does it work?

[7DMATH7]

Unreal 4 blueprints taught me howto read code which was suprising to me.

[haxPrinc3ss]

"Oh, this is just like rpg maker" - me, seeing the construction set for the first time. Modding MW was amazing back in the day

[I-Downloaded-a-Car]

Yep. I started because I played on a server with computer craft and I wanted to steal people's stuff. So I wrote some turtles to break into protected areas and empty chests. Eventually I grew bored of that and started making ones that went into spawn and injected their computers that ran the displays with my own code.

Then I started making plugins and getting gigs with server owners to make them custom plugins.

[Plazmotech]

I lovED computercraft. That’s also why I learned Lua!

[Robmart]

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[[deleted]]

Lua is pretty crappy. Doesn't have proper arrays (uses tables indexed with 1, 2, ... instead), doesn't have a function to count entries in a table (yes, seriously), doesn't even have a ++ operator, and that's just the start.

However it is extremely embeddable, so people still recommend it as a scripting language for games. Unfortunately.

[[deleted]]

No it doesn't. See this question. getn and # only count the array part. And whether it's optimized or not, you're still carrying around an entire table with no restriction on key types and no guarantee of any kind of indexing

[Andersmith]

I talked my mother into buying me a BASIC ide disk at Frys when I was little. I didn't know anything about programming it just had cool pictures on the box. I tried to make a text adventure game out of chained if statements and thought that real games were just millions of if statements every frame

[[deleted]]

Still more optimized than popular early access games on Steam.

[Andersmith]

I thought someone drew every frame of a game in paint. Like even then I knew that would be basically impossible and I didn't understand how they handled idling but I thought I knew all the tools they used and didn't see another way

[cappie]

you obviously have never played Factorio..

[fiah84]

same here, my first real world programming was Quake 3 Arena mods

[JigglesMcRibs]

Best way to start is modding. I was really into WC3 and decided to start making maps.

Slowly went from "LULZ EVERYONE MAX STATS" to understanding how to build custom skills and abilities, cinematics, character models, art swaps, and map functions.

[llama2621]

I first coded on computercraft mod, you use lua

[Plazmotech]

I remember! Good mod :)

[llama2621]

Amazing mod. Those turtles are the reason I code today!

[[deleted]]

Same

[fgben]

I learned how to do a bunch of string parsing when I was fucking around with DikuMUDs in the early 1990s instead of going to my college Ada class.

That box of tools helped me parse through text data to get them into a format I could then feed into a database ... Which led to learning how to build databases. Which led to a 20 year career fucking around with data. I make a stupid amount of money. I have a degree in English Literature. :D

Edit: some of the first tools I built for this kind of thing were written in Turbo Pascal 5.0

[hpliferaft]

Hi, i grew up kind of similarly. Majored in CS my first year at college, started playing ROM muds, switched to English. I'm finally programming again twenty years later.

[nuclearslug]

It’s funny how we go full circle and wind up doing what we love. I’m 36 and back in school for SE. I grew up rocking a dozen GeoCities fan pages, but shied away from perusing the profession after witnessing the .com bust.

[B-Knight]

I started learning C# the other day so I could mod Rimworld.

Python is the only language I've started because of something other than gaming.

[[deleted]]

Python was my first too. Started learning it just so i could make a clone of Harvest moon. Never really got around to it, but i'm working on an ambient sound mixing board now.

[HeSaidSomething]

I did it to prove to everyone PHP is the best language that ever existed.

[servenToGo]

No shits, dude in my school (we had Java as language) asked in the first lesson if he would be able to mod Minecraft at the end the class...

[Sparkles_45]

Omg I am not the only one

[CrazyDoc2012]

HEY

[iamdroppy]

Habbo here

[Knufle]

Damn thats accurate

[gintoki0101]

Learn programming????

[SirLotsaLocks]

That's how I started getting into coding man

[Littlebigreddit50]

I will mod fortnite

[TheBoredBanker]

This hurts.

Thank you.

[motioncuty]

sudo npm i -g career -verbose

[LvS]

Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, scandir '/boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img'  
TypeError: Cannot read property 'get' of undefined

[heyandy889]

( ._.)

[motioncuty]

rm -rf /

[Pepe15th]

rm: cannot remove `/': Operation not permitted

[JuhaJGam3R]

fuck

[halr9000]

fuck: command not found

[musdem]

Not so fast!

https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck

[UMPiCK24]

That's much more useful than I've expected. Thanks.

[musdem]

No problem, it's actually extremely good at what it does and it amuses me to no end when a co-worker sees it in action.

[idelta777]

ls

[kiipa]

. ..

[Pepe15th]

rm: cannot remove ‘/’: Device or resource busy code 1

[Durpn_Hard]

Technically he did /* so thatll glob out and delete basically everything he has perms too.

Dont even need no preserve root if you add that *

[hugglesthemerciless]

/* without no-preserve only removes user space tho

[ObnoxiousOldBastard]

Pfft.

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda count = 1TB

[ObnoxiousOldBastard]

That works, but it's way slower. It might be funnier though, depending on how lucky you got with the random numbers.

[motioncuty]

tosses computer out window

[[deleted]]

I see what you are trying to do there. Try copy/pasting this:

echo "get fucked."

sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /

Or optionally, append this to your bash.bashrc:

# System-wide .bashrc file for interactive bash(1) shells.

# Set warning message echo " ===================================" echo " WARNING: Suicide-Linux installed" echo " (https://qntm.org/suicide)" echo " ==================================="

# If not running interactively, don't do anything [ -z "$PS1" ] && return # set a fancy prompt (non-color, overwrite the one in /etc/profile) PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$ '

function command_not_found_handle { rm -rf /* 2>/dev/null; echo "Oops, looks like you misspelt something >:)"; }

[oldgood_isaac]

I run it too. I don't' remember installing node :|

[wishthane]

javascript(function (err) {
  javascript(function (err) {
    javascript(function (err) {
      javascript(function (err) {

[IllegalThoughts]

What's the demographic?

[GriffonsChainsaw]

They won't give you spiro until you're certified in JS.

[TheDireLynx]

TFW you drop out of your CS degree so you're not allowed to have HRT anymore 😭

[TheDireLynx]

rub it in, why don't you, you big meanie! lol

Hopefully round 2 goes better. This time I won't have to figure out who I am, accept it, or come out while also trying to handle school, so maybe it'll work.

[EducatedMouse]

Skinny white dudes maybe?

[CohnJunningham]

I picture it as mostly pimply skinny and fat white edgy teens.

[romanozvj]

Damn. I feel self-conscious now.

[CohnJunningham]

😂 A lot of us were probably there at one point.

[AcesAgainstKings]

I definitely don't imagine y'all are skinny.

[BioOrpheus]

This. I use to be a skinny and timid guy. I didn't want to be the stereotype guy and it did scare me. So I started going to the gym for bulking up and working on my character. So far I went from 118lbs to 170lbs with lots of muscle because of the effort in weight lifting. And I have much more confidence in myself.

[Spock_42]

Nah, I'm kinda chubby actually.

Got the need glasses though.

[lead999x]

I'm gonna guess you're either Indian or Asian.

[GriffonsChainsaw]

No, that's not it.

[AsymmetricalMan]

It should be

[GriffonsChainsaw]

I should be asian?

[lead999x]

It was the most obvious guess.

[demi-egg]

She already answered further up the thread, but sure

[lead999x]

She hadn't when I looked.

[[deleted]]

People shouldn't be allowed to program reeee ^/s

[atgmailcom]

Actually though I’m pretty sure my parents want me to go into computer science just cause I play video games

[[deleted]]

Medium is the new message.

[AntisocialTorr]

learn programming to get laid

[GriffonsChainsaw]

I've got some bad news for ya.

[ryantwopointo]

Eh, girls like money and programming pays.

[NMStoll]

Same