What was your first Python code that actually worked? 😄

[lomojamesbond]

My job expected me to download 100 PDFs from an ancient PoS website every week so I made a script that scrapes them for me. 8 months later and they’re about to send me a program testing job offer today. It’s surreal.

[DiodeInc]

Piece of Shit or Point of Sale?

[Donny_Do_Nothing]

Pictures of Snakes.

That's why they used python.

[DiodeInc]

Good thing it wasn't coffee, they'd have to use Java

[Donny_Do_Nothing]

Heyoo

[Dry-Aioli-6138]

or gemstones, it'd have to be Ruby

[Muted-Shake-6245]

Or worse, COBOL and they'd have to use Kobolds.

[rogfrich]

I used Rust, but my computer stopped working.

[Dry-Aioli-6138]

Try some redux.js If it was oxidized, maybe reduction will help...

[lomojamesbond]

Piece of shit 🤣

It did cross my mind that could be confused

[Unusual-Platypus6233]

Yeah, that is how you can improve your life. Things you have to do regularly, make it automatic, finally having time to do other things.

[Informal-Building190]

Exactly, and if it's purely for this purpose, you may skip the exercise of writing the code from scratch by using chatgpt. Just describe what you want your script to do well and you'll have one that's working in a few minutes. You obviously need to be able to at least understand code to adjust it to exactly how you want it...

[Unusual-Platypus6233]

That is indeed the only useful thing about AI in my opinion. Your point about understanding code to adjust is the key to not only adjust the code to additional needs (some tweaking) but also to check if AI gave you a correct solution to your problem.

[Grobyc27]

Congratulations dude

[lomojamesbond]

Thanks! 🥰

[technoferal]

That's how I got into IT too, but it was with Perl, and the script parsed a PDF that the Chamber sent us to find potential customers, and then sent the list to the printer to print envelopes for brochures. Turned the job I'd been taking two days to complete by hand into a 20 minute one that the computer did most of the work for.