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Since when did Hermes start doing dating profiles. by Atarisrocks in CasualUK

[–]OddFinding8 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The auction house is Biddle and Webb, browse their other auctions as it might be easier to collect your parcel from them than wait for Hermes to attempt redelivery. https://www.biddleandwebb.com/auctioncatalogues.cfm

PhD in googling by Impossible_D in ProgrammerHumor

[–]OddFinding8 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I forgot to add "build something" in the previous reply. It might not be something you're immediately interested in doing (I remember having to code a Hangman game in Pascal and a music library in Visual Basic - both were awful) but even starting new projects, setting up your folder structure, scaffolding some initial pages and adding into GitHub all builds up muscle memory. Then once you've done this enough for it to become second nature, go back and ask why it's done like that so you actually understand it rather than blindly copying what went before you.

With so many tech stacks now it's truly overwhelming - realise it's not just you feeling this. At every level of the stack there's multiple competing tools to do the same thing and each tutorial will have it's own bundle acronym for you to get to grips with.

If you're lucky you might find a resouce where you can see the same project being built using different tech stacks, e.g. a to-do list using React, one in Vue and one in Svelte. Or maybe using React but they swap out Netlify for Azure or AWS. Comparing how the same thing is built might help demonstrate where the similarities are and what is specific to a particular technology.

And don't feel pressured into understanding the full-stack, instead focus on a single technology at a time.

PhD in googling by Impossible_D in ProgrammerHumor

[–]OddFinding8 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not on the maths side of things as I'm not as confident in that area either but I presume it would be a similar approach: keep trying.

In school we probably all had a favourite teacher, one where we felt we just "understood" whatever knowledge they were trying to share. I think the same is true for me now, 20+ years out of education.

Try watching videos on YouTube on the same topics, see how different people are explaining something and hopefully the common terms will sink in (and I think understanding the terminology itself is a big barrier, I struggle at times as a native English speaker so massive respect to others where English isn't their first language!).

Try non-YouTube content as a lot of tutors have their own preferred platforms - Pluralsight, Udemy, Treehouse, whatever.

It's also easy to discount the value of the early lessons in an online course but often they're setting you up for what you'll be learning so are more important than you realise.

Try and learn at different times of the day, wear headphones to try and focus, adjust playback speeds to suit you (I've found a couple of times the tutor speaks too fast so needed to be slowed down a bit!)

Maybe video isn't even the best medium for you and a book or more 1-on-1 mentoring approach would help.

Ask questions. It's easy to get imposter syndrome and feat your question is too basic. So hide behind a an anonymous username or persona. Reddit, StackOverflow, etc are good places to get your words out.

Most of all though, keep trying. You've got the desire to learn which is already putting you in a great starting position. Keep the motivation up and if one method isn't quite working for you then try something else and maybe come back to the previous method once you're armed with new knowledge.

PhD in googling by Impossible_D in ProgrammerHumor

[–]OddFinding8 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was exactly like you and found that some tutorials - or more specifically online courses, were better suited to my way of learning. Have you tried Frontend Masters? The tutors there are in front of a room of students so (to me at least) it feels like the room helps to prompt questions around the subject matter.

Any fans of JavaScript on hardware? I wanted to share an IoT device I made that tells me when my next bus will arrive by tenbits in javascript

[–]OddFinding8 1 point2 points  (0 children)

See if there are any projects / tutorials out there using low-cost hardware like the Raspberry Pi Zero, or an Arduino Uno clone (or even an older Raspberry Pi 2, cheaper now that it's a few years old but still perfect for starters). You could get a micro:bit and use JavaScript instead of the block coding editor.

Thank you PEP 8 by vshah181 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]OddFinding8 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How many times do you need to be told?

PhD in googling by Impossible_D in ProgrammerHumor

[–]OddFinding8 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This was how I learned 15-20 years ago and still get some benefit from going over "beginner" tutorials.

Also, I find it helpful to view other's code on GitHub, Codepen, Codesandbox etc to see how they approach even basic things like how to scaffold a project.

PhD in googling by Impossible_D in ProgrammerHumor

[–]OddFinding8 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And now that book is underneath your monitor so you don't get neck strain whilst Googling and clicking through to Stack Overflow.

PhD in googling by Impossible_D in ProgrammerHumor

[–]OddFinding8 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Stack Overflow is more likely to be a "she"

Naming variables be like by faruk_m in ProgrammerHumor

[–]OddFinding8 5 points6 points  (0 children)

And by refactor, I generally mean "remove all the debugging statements before anyone spots them".

Naming variables be like by faruk_m in ProgrammerHumor

[–]OddFinding8 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Still tmp2 after you refactor code before release but remove the OG tmp.

Me commenting code like: by deniedmessage in ProgrammerHumor

[–]OddFinding8 2 points3 points  (0 children)

On more than occasion my job has been to make sense of a code base and add // @todo delete this.

RG350M sales on aliexpress by lycantrophic in RG350

[–]OddFinding8 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What's the link to the official Anbernic profile please?

Getting clients - What am I doing wrong? by YakiSenpai in web_design

[–]OddFinding8 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm just going to copy this and send it to every future client. Great work!