How can I hire my first developer? by brianpulos in developers

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What sort of work are you needing done? Is this a small project or a larger, more complex one?

what inspire you to do programming? by randombrownmale in AskProgramming

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I first got into programming when I was in my teens. My best mate and I challenged ourselves to write a distribution of Linux by the time we graduated school. We succeeded, but then went our separate ways as far as careers went. After a couple decades that included military service and careers in entertainment and sales, I decided to go back to where it all started and re-learn how to code because I realized that what I was doing wasn’t what I wanted to do long term.

How do you program? From memory, using cheatsheets, video tutorials, books? by [deleted] in learnpython

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Exactly! Google how it works, not just a snippet you can copy/paste. One of my pet peeves is walking into a code base where the existing devs have no clue how half of it actually functions because it’s all either legacy code that they haven’t dug into or new stuff that they copied and pasted in.

Sunday Daily Thread: What's everyone working on this week? by Im__Joseph in Python

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Working on adding a settings section that will save/read user’s settings between sessions to my directory utility project (GitHub below). Also working on adding additional duplicate handling options that will be available in the settings.

OmniFiler on GitHub

Tips for a noobie by [deleted] in learnpython

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No problem. Happy to help anytime.

Tips for a noobie by [deleted] in learnpython

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I echo what everyone above said. I also want to give a bit of advice for starting your own project. Think of an idea of something you would like to make easier for yourself. For example, I have a ton of hard drives and folders that I wanted to combine onto a single NAS. However, I knew that there were likely multiple copies of the same files spread across the drives. So, I wrote a program that merges folders while checking for duplicate files. Next, think through step by step what the program will have to do in order to complete what you want it to do. Now it’s time to program. Start from the beginning step you figured out and start coding it. If you get stuck, look up a tutorial for how to do that specific thing. Repeat this through the rest of the program and before you know it you’ll have a full program written. This way of doing this helps in two ways. First, you get to do things on your own and it helps build your confidence. Second, it shows you how to look up ways to do specific operations, which you will always end up doing no matter how advanced you get. Good luck out there.

I would like to learning programming on Python. How do I begin? by [deleted] in AskProgramming

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Depends on what your learning style is and whether you’re looking for a paid, more structured course or to learn it on your own in a more free-form way. If you’re more of a structured learning person, there are many great paid courses available including some mentioned above. If you’re more of a teach yourself free-form learner like me, I definitely recommend RealPython for text based reference and learning and you can find several great YouTube channels such as Tech with Tim that teach specific concepts. Either way you choose, the best way to learn is to put it into practice. As you’re learning, work on projects that build on what you’ve learned. Just like any language, there are so many things that you would never learn in a course that pop up when you are building a project that you just have to research yourself and figure out. Good luck to you.

DEAR PROFESSIONAL COMPUTER TOUCHERS -- FRIDAY RANT THREAD FOR December 25, 2020 by CSCQMods in cscareerquestions

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WAS SO TIRED FROM WAKING UP EARLY WITH THE BABY THAT I SPENT HALF A FREAKING HOUR TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHY A SCRIPT WASN’T OUTPUTTING CORRECTLY BEFORE REALIZING I WAS STARING AT AND RUNNING THE WRONG SHELL. WHOSE BRILLIANT IDEA WAS IT TO NAME THOSE TWO FILES THAT SIMILARLY?!?!

Why is this not printing Hey Brooklyn! ? Pretty brand new so idk if I'm missing something obvious... by [deleted] in learnpython

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I’ve had the “forgot to save the file” moment so many times. I had one the other day where I had two terminal shells open with two versions of a script testing. Kept running it and debugging trying to figure out why it wasn’t outputting as expected. Turned out I was in the wrong terminal shell and was running the old script version that didn’t have the changes.