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honestly the real patriarchy is that nobody has invented a drug to make me more interested in learning programming yet

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why do you want to learn programming? what do you want to do with it? imo this matters a lot for what approach you should take

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I'd be a lot richer if I were a great programmer, not cause I would get jobs but cause I could just pump out ideas I have

6:52 PM · Feb 1, 2022

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Pick your favorite and learn to code by picking up the techs you need to build it.

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ok this is my tentative recommendation 1) wait until you get an idea which - inspires you - is relatively easy to implement a minimum viable product (not technically complex and doesn’t take too long)

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Most of us will never be great programmers. You need to be born with something special. If you are happy with being an ok programmer to work on your own projects, maybe one-to-one tutoring could be useful.

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I had the same thought ten years ago. I'm still in the learning to program phase...

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Ideas: Start using python as an advanced calculator Have simpler (to implement) ideas (e.g. "I want to know what distribution of election results you get if you start at polls and add random noise")

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you don't want to program, you want to make money figure out how to make money, not how to program

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Honestly I think the only way to reliably get rich as a programmer, is to get a job at a big tech company. The odds of making good money releasing your own products are not great. Mostly because the hard part isn't even programming, it's just the part that seems like it should be

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Maybe you'd have fewer ideas if you spent time coding.

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i would consider hiring programmers instead, seems to me like a much more straightforward solution one person's programming output is not really that great, unless you're some greybeard wizard, so you'd probably end up having to hire anyway

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You could always hire programmers. Most people, who are not full time professional developers, who learn some programming do it because it helps them with their work. The motivation is you can automate tasks saving you time, and all your colleagues think you are a genius.