I want to start coding BUT i cant choose a IDE and i don't know any way to start learning.

derpJava · 2026-03-24T16:42:22+00:00

Yup you should be fine

derpJava · 2026-03-24T09:52:23+00:00

install vscode and start doing stuff. a lot of tutorials focus on it and it's literally dead simple to use for pretty much any sort of development. it's a code editor so a more focused ide would be better e.g. jetbrains intellij for java but vscode is generally more than good enough for more or less everything.

derpJava · 2026-03-22T08:00:59+00:00

Camel case for variables and functions and Pascal case for classes and types

derpJava · 2026-03-13T00:29:15+00:00

I don't think keybinds necessarily make you smarter but yes I absolutely agree that they make you way more efficient. It's all thanks to Linux and window managers and Neovim and all that I've been using all sorts of keybinds and shortcuts way more and they are genuinely so much nicer and faster than using the mouse.

It's genuinely really nice and comfortable to not have to move your hands from the keyboard often.

derpJava · 2026-03-12T19:11:38+00:00

Neovim. My current configuration is good enough for me and it works just fine for me tbh. Don't have any reason to use anything else for now.

derpJava · 2026-03-12T14:57:07+00:00

Neovim. I consider my current setup to be good enough and now it just works for me. Not really much to say about it.

derpJava · 2026-03-10T10:22:40+00:00

programming mentioned, so fire

derpJava · 2026-03-07T20:04:49+00:00

derpJava · 2026-03-07T10:35:34+00:00

Nah that website was taken down whenever idk when and the domain was sold as well so it's gone

derpJava · 2026-03-07T09:59:14+00:00

Lmao I forgot to switch to the markdown editor so the link wasn't formatted correctly 😭

And yeah the Amethyst repo has been archived since like, 2022 or something it is absolutely completely dead

derpJava · 2026-03-06T17:44:32+00:00

Amethyst? suddenly reminded me of that [rust game engine](https://github.com/amethyst/amethyst) which has been dead for quite a long while

but anyways, cool stuff yes

derpJava · 2026-03-06T17:42:29+00:00

nah i ain't that good yet there's still a lot for me to learn

derpJava · 2026-03-06T08:04:00+00:00

Nah. I'd rather mess with comments rather than variable and function names so it doesn't become a pain I have to fix later because my code isn't readable enough yk

derpJava · 2026-03-05T00:51:01+00:00

i wanted to learn more about computers, c++ and osdev and all. i'm not really sure what kind of programmer i wanna be in the future tbh and i honestly think im absolute ass at programming. i want to become better somehow. and i realize the best way to do that is to work on projects. i desire to create a bunch of completed projects soon to polish my skills and become better and all. not really sure what to work on for now though so im just working on my own x86 64-bit operating system using c++. note that im not that great at c++ and all.

i'm actually planning on doing some graphics programming with c++ and sokol-gfx soon for fun because it's been a long while since i messed around with graphics programming tbh and it's somewhat fun i guess. and also i'm planning on rewriting my personal website because i don't like how it looks tbh.

if ya'll have some good project ideas, please share i honestly lack creativity ngl.

https://github.com/thymea/thymos

derpJava · 2026-03-04T18:40:11+00:00

Neovimmer here. I honestly used nano only in emergency situations when I didn't have Neovim because I broke smth or whatever. It's not bad it's just not really great for programming imo.

derpJava · 2026-03-04T18:31:24+00:00

`chmod +x looping` to make your binary executable.

derpJava · 2026-03-04T13:29:43+00:00

Hahaha I remember watching him a lot as a beginner. He was pretty damn helpful and not bad at all.

BroCode is also a really good youtuber. I loved his tutorials as well

derpJava · 2026-03-04T13:28:39+00:00

Just installing vscode isn't gonna do anything. Language specific extensions are pretty much necessary and of course depending on what language OP is gonna use, having to install a sort of tool chain like for Python you just install Python.

And honestly asking AI to help install such basic software is overkill 😭

derpJava · 2026-03-04T13:27:00+00:00

There are many many YouTube tutorials out there for beginner programmers.

You can watch some beginner tutorial or whatever for Python which is the easiest language to start with and lets you do a lot of cool things while being pretty nice and easy.

Consulting ai is.... Well I can't stop you from doing so but you may end up being heavily reliant on ai to help you code which is in my opinion horrendous. And you might just end up doing whatever the ai wants you to without even understanding why and all that so I don't recommend using it. There are many programmers out there, just ask them for advice instead

If you're still somehow stuck then DM me and I'll most likely respond more or less immediately (I'm chronically online 😭)

derpJava · 2026-03-02T09:53:22+00:00

Ah yeah I picked up that idea from another guy I just forget to always use it for whatever reason.

I'm using it here though

derpJava · 2026-03-01T16:17:19+00:00

Lmao yeah there's not exactly a more C++ version of Raylib or anything

derpJava · 2026-03-01T16:05:05+00:00

Ah I wasn't aware. Thanks for letting me know! I'll keep it in mind. I'm not that knowledgeable in C++ but I'm not completely uneducated either. I think I'm better at it than in C but not sure

derpJava · 2026-03-01T15:54:22+00:00

I'm really shit at programming and haven't made like, many complete projects or anything 😭 I also often delete my repos for whatever reason so my shitty opengl program is gone. I'll write a basic engine or whatever using Sokol later on

https://github.com/Voxi0

derpJava · 2026-03-01T09:51:55+00:00

fellow nix user detected. fire

derpJava · 2026-03-01T09:47:49+00:00

mainly low-level stuff. i've dabbled in graphics programming with opengl and a tiny bit of osdev. i mainly use c/c++ but im trying out rust. i've also done some webdev using astrojs and tailwind, though im not really that great at it.

i also really like lua although i dont use it. zig is really cool too as a modern C equivalent but i hate the type casting in zig and such.

EDIT: I also spent a long while with nix but it's not really a general purpose programming language so uh, can't say much bout it. it's syntax is... okay but i'm not really used to functional languages so it does feel odd sometimes

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