1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

As a hobby coder, it can be fun and enriching. As a production coder doing your piece to fit in with others and deadlines... it isn't worth what it pays.

 

https://learnpython.org/

 

www.google.com

 

So much of this depends on the organization you work in, but most organization are... not what they should be.

 

This is the good guy answer really, fun and useful.

 

So I asked because my algorithms have suggested as such (based on some memes I actually understood lol)

Then online classes would pop up, granted I'm not gonna trust a rando with government money but still

I'd like to spend an hour a night just learning

 

Plus who doesn't like learning something new?!

 

The secret is that there are two parts to coding.

Learning a programming language usually isn't the hard part.

Learning to understand and solve a problem in a structured way can be either perfectly natural or nearly impossible depending on the person.

Seeing how you've approached baking, welding, and CAD/CNC over the years, I suspect you'll be a natural at the problem-solving part.

 

Binary logic sometimes gives for people and sometimes doesnt

 

Just had to ask if it was even something to consider. I like learning about things I know nothing about, even more when friends know it really well.

 

You're an engineer so clearly you already know everything about everything

 

Yes exactly
Wish more people understood this

 

You mean "yes" and "no" are my only choices?

 

When Google doesn't yield an accurate response, I hear questions just get rerouted to you

Gotta use up that 1tb of ram somehow

 

I agreeee heavily, the language and syntax is just words which are all documented somewhere and can be referenced lol. learning how to think in a different paradigm and solve a problem using a different language is where people often get hung up.. and as someone who is already a problem solver and is bilingual, you’re already well on your way to applying those skills to code

 

damn, all mech e really are the same huh

 

I sometimes wonder how a person's first language affects their coding.

Like, programming languages are based around nouns and verbs and idioms that might be handled differently in written/spoken languages. How much does the origin of the coder's first language help or hurt their intuition about programming languages? Is there an advantage to speaking English or Spanish or German or Mandarin or Russian or Hindi?

 

Through the years, I would need to follow a person who tried to make their code hard to understand on purpose. The worst case was following a consultant at Time in FL who's contract was not renewed.
Before his last day, he edited the variable storage names to be body parts. The procedures were about some sex act. The system was not backed up in the source library.
It had been running for a while and them we found the problems and the code he left.

Shortly after that incident a programmer got mad at the programming manager and unleashed a virus on the computer that stored code.

I couldn't wait to get away from that place.

 

A place where I worked hired a bunch of Russia scientists when the iron curtain came down. They really didn't know programming but were being coached in community training sessions for the 100 most commonly asked questions on a NYC programmer interview. They could answer the questions but had no idea about what was happening with IO. Lots of negative logic. This was a Dilbert cartoon.

 

When I left a previous job (on good terms), I spent my last two weeks not doing much, to make sure others would be self-sufficient once I left. In my spare time, I hid some functionality in the team chat bot to randomly post links to articles from https://martinfowler.com/ after I left. I put a lot of thought into obfuscating my tracks, but also making everything easy to decipher once someone started looking. I thought it would be a fun puzzle.

I was very disappointed to learn later that another dev noticed and reverted the changes without ever deciphering them, before the bot ever posted anything.