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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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I do feel like ppl who know how to program have forgotten about all the intuitive knowledge they have that helps. I have tried a few times to learn and rapidly get stuck on a confusion that no programming forum addresses because it's too basic

6:58 PM · Feb 1, 2022

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100000% yes i keep running into this problem

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i would absolutely fucking join a chat where half of us are people with the stupidest basic questions and the other half are people happy to explain with short turnaround time

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What's an example of a too basic confusion? (Anyone who relates to this experience is invited to offer examples, not just aella)

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yeah or it's basic but in the wrong way—easy to find explanations of for loops and conditionals, hard to find the stuff that addresses "what is the difference between my toy program and an actual application that does meaningful work"

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If you make an alt twitter account dedicated to programming I bet people will jump at the opportunity to help

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“getting stuck on a confusion that no programming forum addresses” is maybe the ultimate distillation of what programming feels like a lot of the time fwiw

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I feel like the modding is the motivation that you hold in your mind, while you go through the actual beginner tutorials

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i needed a person to walk me thru it. now i can learn on my own, but the person-to-person mentoring is the only reason i got off the ground.

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working backwards from something you're itching to create is best you'll have the motivation to continue when you get frustrated programming is an exercise in pain endurance lol

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Have any specifics for humor? Most of the things in programming need a good metaphor to explain the abstract idea, and then a set of contradictions to explain why it's not really like that idea. Asking the why too early is also often not helpful.