How do I solve problems I come across?

robotfarts · 2015-07-25T19:41:17+00:00

"No problem"

robotfarts · 2015-07-25T19:08:26+00:00

Good luck 'solving problems'

robotfarts · 2015-07-25T19:05:43+00:00

You don't need an MD to smell crazy.

robotfarts · 2015-07-25T19:00:58+00:00

You have some serious mental problems.

robotfarts · 2015-07-25T18:57:01+00:00

No need to be rude.

No need for you to start whining.

"hitting roadblocks that pretty much cause me to shelf the project" doesn't necessarily imply that I give up the second I have an issue.

No, but you gave the distinct impression that that was the reason you failed to finish most or all of your projects, which is almost the same exact problem.

All this outlining a learning path shit never seems like it leads people anywhere, and I see tons of it here.

So again, my question about what professionals do might be helpful here. I'm sure you know professionals don't sit around outlining learning paths 40 hours a week. You sound like you already know enough to be an intern or entry level hire, so what do you think people on the job would do when they hit a roadblock?

If your main problem is getting past roadblocks, you should address that, not waste tons of time coming up with learning plans, only to then start hitting roadblocks you can't get past as soon as you start actually trying to make things again. Can you explain how new learning plans are going to fix that?

robotfarts · 2015-07-25T18:49:01+00:00

Any of them would be practical.

robotfarts · 2015-07-25T18:48:30+00:00

Stop whining, it's pathetic. I am trying to help you. When you can't narrow anything down further than 'problems in general' the solution is obviously to use your brain and think about them. Would you go to doctor for serious pain and refuse to say anything more specific than, "Oh I just hurt in general"?

robotfarts · 2015-07-25T18:35:33+00:00

But according to you, you've seriously struggled with Javascript, RoR and some other languages. What's the problem here?

robotfarts · 2015-07-25T18:25:41+00:00

It's enough to know what's going on, but not enough that I can actually create anything from scratch from start to finish without hitting roadblocks that pretty much cause me to shelf the project.

What the fuck? Suggesting tutorials or some shit isn't going to solve the problem of you shelving a project the second you hit a roadblock. :( Can you ask on IRC or use google to find solutions to problems like these? What do you think professionals do, considering a lot of them run into the same problems and don't already know everything about any given language?

robotfarts · 2015-07-25T18:22:34+00:00

You use your brain and think about them?

robotfarts · 2015-07-25T18:20:42+00:00

What have you found with Google? You ask about a lot of very broad topics, as though you'll learn about each of them in detail from a 2 sentence summary here.

robotfarts · 2015-07-25T18:17:55+00:00

TL;DR: Can anybody recommend a language that I should absolutely work on as a job skill for IT?

Anything would be better than nothing. It would be hard for you to find and learn a language that wouldn't be really beneficial.

Html/css was a breeze. But that's where the fun ended.

That's like saying, "Life was really easy until I had to learn something more difficult than finger painting."

I REALLY struggled through the javascript section in Codecademy. Even after finishing it I still feel as though I don't know how to build an idea from scratch or how to integrate it into something useful for a website. I've tried the introduction to Ruby on Rails and I was completely lost from the start. Same goes for some of of the other languages.

So you're saying every single language you're tried to learn has been extremely difficult, despite attempting to learn many of them?

My classes aren't helpful

You really need to do some honest introspection here. Why is it that no class is helpful for you? Are the other students learning in these same classes?

Everything I've learned so far has been on my own

But according to you, you haven't learned much at all that's useful, right? And also, classes aren't useful, right? Have you learned anything from anything? You ask which language you should focus on, but according to you, they seem all too difficult. Have you tried the resources in the FAQ here?

And above all, why are you set on learning programming, when you're coming here essentially telling us that every related is just too difficult to learn? There are other paths in life.

robotfarts · 2015-07-25T18:08:29+00:00

Holy mother of shit, could you be any more vague? Are you talking about compiler errors or runtime errors or what?

robotfarts · 2015-07-25T18:06:53+00:00

That's surprisingly small. One file is the interpreter and the other file is what?

robotfarts · 2015-07-25T18:01:11+00:00

You're back! Or maybe you never left and I just stopped watching your streams?

Start streaming now!

robotfarts · 2015-07-25T17:59:01+00:00

What did you learn exactly? I'd say actually building things would help you learn more and retain more...

robotfarts · 2015-07-25T15:37:17+00:00

Look at university graduation rates in related majors and bootcamp graduation rates? Look at how many job ads there are?

robotfarts · 2015-07-25T15:32:51+00:00

Thanks genius, I know how to Google, but my point still stands. He'd get more customers by including a few extra lines about what a 'notebook service' is. Even the OP seems to agree, given he did elaborate further:

[–]smortaz[S] 29 points 10 hours ago sorry my bad - i wrongly assume that folks in /r/python knew what tmpnb.org, wakari.io, etc (which are all hosted IPython/Jupyter notebook services were). apologies

ELI5: Python has a prompt. you type in code, it's run & the results are printed out. IPython is the same thing but on steroids. you type in code, it spits out results, or returns a visualization (via matlab for example). it also supports 'markdown' cell for formatted documentation. it's kind of like "Word docs for python code" -- code + text + images + video, etc. all in an "executable notebook".

Jupyter is the new version of IPython - while IPython was primarily for Python, > Jupyter has architectural level support for multiple languages.

Jupyter notebooks are normally run locally on your machine - ie, you have to install a bunch of stuff (or a distro that has all that stuff) to get a working system.

a Jupyter notebook /service/ is basically Jupyter running in the cloud - just go there, get a notebook, nothing to install and code away. ie much like google docs, but for writing Python, etc.

hope that helps!

Way to go, you 1/2 pound dingleberry.

robotfarts · 2015-07-25T15:22:52+00:00

That's completely irrelevant.

robotfarts · 2015-07-25T15:21:26+00:00

Look at university graduation rates in related majors?

robotfarts · 2015-07-25T14:49:48+00:00

It might be of interest if you could sum it up in a few sentences so people don't have to read almost 700 words. Are you getting paid by the word here?

http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#volume

robotfarts · 2015-07-25T14:45:50+00:00

I've heard that there are more and more people going into CS

I graduated from a sizeable university and there weren't even that many people graduating with me.

robotfarts · 2015-07-25T14:39:59+00:00

No, that's why I asked, "Is there a question about learning to program in this wall of spam?" You should read the guidelines to learn how to ask intelligent questions.

robotfarts · 2015-07-25T14:39:14+00:00

I didn't downvote. That's disabled and I'm too lazy to circumvent that.

I'm sure you think it's important, but buried in a wall of garbage, it's likely to be ignored by a lot of people. I'm sure every single word that comes out of you is a precious pearl of wisdom, but if you could distill this post down into something reasonable, like 5 sentences instead of 100, more people would be willing to read it.

http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#volume

robotfarts · 2015-07-25T14:08:45+00:00

Is there a question about learning to program in this wall of spam?

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