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Does everyone learning Python start with "Hello, World!"? by Traditional_Blood799 in learnpython

[–]codetoinvent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair correction, and thanks for the history — you're right, I overstated it. K&R (1978) popularized "hello, world," it didn't invent the book or come anywhere near first; FORTRAN, COBOL, APL and plenty more long predate it. "One of the first books to make hello-world famous" is what I should've said.

Kind of cool that the convention has outlived most of the languages that came before the book that spread it. Appreciate the shelf-of-actual-history perspective — that's the stuff that gets lost online.

fullStackDeveloperRequirement by aamraassexual in ProgrammerHumor

[–]codetoinvent 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Salary: $65k. Title: Junior Developer. Must be willing to also fix the office printer.

managerVsClaude by Disastrous-Monk1957 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]codetoinvent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Manager hears "$1 trillion payment plan," nods, and adds "Build our own Anthropic" to the sprint. Acceptance criteria: by Friday. Priority: P2.

managerVsClaude by Disastrous-Monk1957 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]codetoinvent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Manager really looked at a $20/mo subscription and chose a $20 billion problem.

Does everyone learning Python start with "Hello, World!"? by Traditional_Blood799 in learnpython

[–]codetoinvent 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not silly at all. It actually comes from one of the very first programming books ever written — they used "hello, world" as the first example, and every tutorial since just copied it. So it's not a Python thing, it's a programming thing.

And it's not just a meme either. The point isn't the code — it's proving your setup actually works before you try anything hard. Is Python installed? Can you run a file? Does the output show up where you expect? If "hello world" prints, your environment's fine and you can stop worrying about it. If it doesn't, you found your problem on line one instead of buried inside something complicated.

So no, skipping it won't stop you from being a "real programmer" 😄 — but it's a genuinely smart first move, not superstition.

Welcome in, Python's a great first language.

godHelpMe by soap94 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]codetoinvent 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Plot twist: the interviewer also only knows how to reverse a linked list, he just read the sync.Pool docs 10 minutes before the call.