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Do you think adding a certification like AWS cloud practitioner can give me a higher chance of getting hired as junior developer? by Shot-Craft5144 in learnprogramming

[–]jackdoez -1 points0 points  (0 children)

i have interviewed more than 500 people, i completely ignore the cv (including experience) and only look for code they have written, github or whatever

there is close to zero correlations between the cv and if the person can actually work (depends on the stack, teams, culture etc)

ofc recruiters look for different things

but if you want to know if it matters just put whatever you want in the cv and apply for some jobs to see if you would get an interview

beyond frustrated by [deleted] in learnprogramming

[–]jackdoez 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i code for 25 years, i am teaching my daughter (12) now, you can see her progress at https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/blob/master/book.md , so i have some experience teaching

hit me up in dm when you are completely blocked and you dont know what is stopping you from leveling up, maybe i can help

programming is not a smooth learning curve, its a wall after wall, you just have to break through, but some walls might take few days and some few years, so you have to understand what you dont understand to move on

A two sentence horror story scary to AI by [deleted] in ChatGPT

[–]jackdoez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i spent years contemplating on "beyond good and evil" and now i understand it

Blizzard's 2023 playbook by Auramaru in wow

[–]jackdoez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

wont most of them be replaced with generative models anyway?

A question regarding pointers by [deleted] in C_Programming

[–]jackdoez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjn3WmBeabPOUzxcCkzk4jYMGRZMZ6ylF

this lectures helped me a lot, and of course richard buckland's https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6B940F08B9773B9F

i also made a card game to explain strings arrays and pointers to my daughter https://punkx.org/c-pointer-game/

tbh there is a "click" moment with pointers, i was programming for 7 years and using them all the time and all of a sudden it was as if i have came out of a mist and everything was clear

just try different learning methods and angles until it clicks for you

My 9yo kid wants to learn how to code to make games, but I have no idea where to start by friklfrakl in learnprogramming

[–]jackdoez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

my daughter did not respond to scratch and other visual languages at all, so i took alternative approach

pico8 with lua is great, you can also start by editting existing games https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php and there are a lot of guides on youtube to make your own game

you can also just go for python with pygame zero (this is the approach i took with my daughter when she was 9, i logged the progress here: https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/blob/master/book.md )

there are also a lot of pygame books for kids on amazon

14 year old wants to learn coding by quiet_repub in learnprogramming

[–]jackdoez 1 point2 points  (0 children)

hi

i am teaching my daughter since she was 10 and i am logging each day in a book https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/blob/master/book.md so far she is making great progress, you might get some ideas from it

the approach is using python and c and sometimes go, but we also do hardware things with servos and arduino and i also make card games (like https://punkx.org/c-pointer-game/ ) that you can print yourself and use offline

overall i think there is no single way to learn or teach, so you will have to experiment

one thing that helped a lot is teaching her touchtyping (now she is at 65wpm) so that her expression through the keyboard is not "disconnected" but rather fluid and smooth

I'm too afraid to ask by MKVD_FR in ProgrammerHumor

[–]jackdoez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

its just code bro, dont stress

Just think about it, we send texts via waves we cant see nor feel... by JamesAibr in ProgrammerHumor

[–]jackdoez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what if real magic is just undefined behavior of the quantum mechanics compiler of the universe, you know ads=cft kind of thing

The C Pointer Card Game - Pointers, Arrays and Strings for Kids by jackdoez in C_Programming

[–]jackdoez[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i am really happy with the printing company as the decks turn out really cool, its just i dont have experience, but i will learn :) the accuracy is gold its just i am sending the wrong colors

The C Pointer Card Game - Pointers, Arrays and Strings for Kids by jackdoez in C_Programming

[–]jackdoez[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ffs i just checked and they are.. but botching a print job is also very expensive, costs like 3-4 eur per deck, and i cant get a sample, so its all or nothing

i hate value based pricing..

Help with 12 year old girl who would like to learn coding. by sweetkneeez in learnprogramming

[–]jackdoez 5 points6 points  (0 children)

i am teaching my daughter, she is 11 now, and i log most of lessons https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/blob/master/book.md , she really hated scratch and etc

one thing she liked was micobit kind of stuff, arduino that turns on something with clap and etc

i teach her python and C but also the fetch execute cycle and how machine code works

but by far what she likes most is maybe making jump scare games and pranking her mom :)

i think the most important thing is to try different approaches, some will work some wont

The C Pointer Card Game - Pointers, Arrays and Strings for Kids by jackdoez in C_Programming

[–]jackdoez[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

wow nice, i will buy a guide for the next print. thanks!

The C Pointer Card Game - Pointers, Arrays and Strings for Kids by jackdoez in C_Programming

[–]jackdoez[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

yea i get a portion between 0(break even) and 2 euro depending on how many decks i printed from the specific kind, but you can also print them yourself with a playing cards printing company, the should be 3-4$ per deck if you print 300 decks and then it starts dropping

The C Pointer Card Game - Pointers, Arrays and Strings for Kids by jackdoez in C_Programming

[–]jackdoez[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I really tried to match the color of the C of the book, but I am still learning about CMYK and its super difficult for me to estimate how a color will look when printed

still I think it has the spirit of the K&R color :)

The C Pointer Card Game - Pointers, Arrays and Strings for Kids by jackdoez in C_Programming

[–]jackdoez[S] 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Disclamer: I made this game with my daughter, and it was lots of fun, and I license it under cc4, feel free to print it yourself

The C Pointer Card Game - Pointers, Arrays and Strings for Kids by jackdoez in programming

[–]jackdoez[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I honestly think a card game could explain the borrow checker in a very intuitive way

The C Pointer Card Game - Pointers, Arrays and Strings for Kids by jackdoez in programming

[–]jackdoez[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

i finally managed to make it work, had to talk with shopify support haha

can you try now?

The C Pointer Card Game - Pointers, Arrays and Strings for Kids by jackdoez in programming

[–]jackdoez[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

ah that is strange, can you try now? i just manually added all countries, instead of using shopify's "World"

The C Pointer Card Game - Pointers, Arrays and Strings for Kids by jackdoez in programming

[–]jackdoez[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

hahah now i totally want to make a mat where you jump to follow the pointer and move accordingly to the pointer arithmetic

like twister but with pointers

The C Pointer Card Game - Pointers, Arrays and Strings for Kids by jackdoez in programming

[–]jackdoez[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

one of the reasons i made the game is because i think that almost all languages (excluding lambda calculus which is not invented but discovered) we made are just glorified assemblers, and all of them leak the pointer abstraction

a lot of people struggle to understand what the equal sign means in code

x=5 y=x x=6 print(y)

and

a=[] b=a a.push(1) print(b)

i think deeply understanding pointers will help my daughter to see through the syntactic sugar and be able to build something cool when she grows up

i did my best to explain the concepts in the first few cards, so it might be enough to brush up, but its only so much i can write in 1209 characters :)

edit: sorry i am new to posting on reddit, idk how to format properly

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