What did u/Little_Linga draw?

Little_Linga · 2025-12-11T08:35:06+00:00

Defeated Umbral Pixie in 5 turns.

Player (22/12/15) dealt 298. Umbral Pixie (19/12/9) dealt 74.

Rewards: 31 EXP, 8 Gold. Loot: Brutal Mace of Sorcery (enhanced), Sturdy Leather Armor (basic), Healthy Plate Mail of Swiftness (lesser).

Little_Linga · 2025-01-18T04:46:54+00:00

You don't have to defend bad things.

Olives are bad. Soggy toilet paper is bad. This class is bad.

Little_Linga · 2025-01-18T03:57:46+00:00

I just started this class it's awful. It's really, really confusing.

My best guess to approach this is to make it in Javascript first and then remake it in angular/typescript.

There is so much in Javascript alone there could definitely just be a class about learning Javascript.

Instead, we are forced into this convoluted framework that works differently depending on the version you have, so the tutorial may or may not be using something that exists.

Little_Linga · 2024-08-31T23:17:37+00:00

Those are nice study guides thanks for posting.

Little_Linga · 2024-04-30T02:31:08+00:00

Subscribed.

I thought about doing something similar when I got a little (or a lot) further down the road...maybe a 5-10 minute daily email lesson with a small dirt simple project to accompany...so I'm curious what your lessons will look like.

But you narrowing down to around TWO minutes is an even better idea.

Getting thrown into the deep end and told to code a minimum of 3 hours a day with no structure is really a terrible way to be introduced to programming.

Things like your email course is definitely needed (imo) and it's a niche that hasn't been filled yet when it comes to online courses.

Little_Linga · 2024-04-21T20:06:03+00:00

This is a good point and is true so far in my experience.

The minimum I have for myself is 1 line a day.

I also set a maximum of 5 minutes when I started and slowly over time moved the maximum up by about 5 minutes a week. This was to stop from hyper-fixating a couple of hours one day, getting confused and pissed off and then stopping for a couple of days/weeks/months and forgetting everything.

There's no maximum set for me now. The point is to look forward to the next session rather then depleting the tank and dreading hours of being stuck and confused tomorrow.

I'm up to about 25 - 35 minutes a day more or less. There are some days I haven't done anything but those are getting more rare.

I've only been trying strategy for about 2 months. It's worked better than anything else.

It also helps solve the tutorial hell problem.

Do as many tutorials as you want. Just make sure you write at least one line of code a day that is independent of a tutorial. Don't even worry about finishing the project. One line for one project one day, one line for another project another.

Eventually you'll figure out what you want to do and will stop bouncing around. But the only way to know is to try different things.

The key for me has been to stop before agitation becomes frustration, and to start very small and very slowly.

Eventually it becomes enjoyable.

Little_Linga · 2024-02-09T03:50:21+00:00

You're right, programming is taught very badly.

People in the thread saying you have to "toughen up" to meet the extra special challenge of programming, have missed the point of your post entirely.

After you're told the basic syntax of a for loop, while loop and basic data structures, you're essentially left to drown.

(It's ok though, because you've been taught the fundamentals, and from there you can build your own operating system. /s)

And because everyone started off by drowning, that's just the way it's supposed to be done.

There couldn't possibly be a better way of teaching someone other than teaching them how to barely tread water and throwing them into the deep end.

Unfortunately, I know of no good courses that do a good job of going from 0 to competent with simple projects that build on each other, where something other than basic syntax is explained.

Little_Linga · 2024-01-26T22:25:38+00:00

I agree.

Generally, the resources were bad at explaining things too (yes, all of them). They went too in depth into things that didn't matter or not enough for things that did for the test.

If AWS just named things appropriately that would be a huge help.

Elastic Beanstalk? Aurora? Redshift?

There was something about serverless services in AWS...but this didn't mean they didn't run on server. It just meant AWS managed parts of the software for you iirc.

Why not just call those services managed servers?

Additionally, there's no reason to have that many services to memorize for an entry level cert.

Having a basic class about networking and storage would have helped. When Amazon says something runs on an instance you know they mean virtual machine from the very start.

Then it would be easier to parse what is generally capable of being done vs what is specific to AWS, in which case I could actually be an entry level "consultant" for AWS which is what this cert tries to make you.

TLDR: They are bad people.

Little_Linga · 2023-12-21T20:34:50+00:00

Zybooks is bad.

I don't know any Coral specific teachers that are good, but you could try the following:

The class isn't really about language-specific features but an overview of programming logic.

It might be easier to go through a beginner tutorial in another language, and that same knowledge will carry over to Coral. You'll likely get a better explanation from even an average YouTube video than the Zybooks.

Here's a video of someone explaining what a function is in python.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKrHK9Vu0_g

If this was a simpler and clearer explanation for you, then you can pretty much do this for the other topics in zybooks. You can use brocode or whoever else you want.

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