coding sucks, i try to google a basic thing and its like 'here's a billion nearby things that arent quite right, if only you had slightly more knowledge about programming so you could modify my example to be what you need, but you don't so you're screwed'
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all i wanna fucking do is figure out how to generate a stupid basic bar chart off my stupid dataframe using my index names as labels for the X axis and numbers in another column for height on the Y axis, this is extremely simple why do i wanna kms
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i dont think i can adequately express the level of frustration i have rn, coding is stupid and everyone trying to explain coding to each other is stupid
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oh thank god someone in a chat finally gave me code that worked, i wanna cry
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This is where I've really found my groove in forums/discords.
Finding other people enthusiastic to talk about a language/algo/structure have always been so helpful.
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even people trying to help sucks. im like 'how do i do this' and they're like 'oh here's an answer full of words you don't know' and im like ok great thanks
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Have you tried using Github Copilot? I imagine it might be quite helpful for this kind of thing
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Don't know what that is! people recommend i try a billion things and idk which ones are worth looking into
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I think the issue is more so that the YouTube tutorial space has hella issues, I find this a lot with music production stuff. I imagine this will be super improved in a few years?
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I wonder if one improvement might be to make it easier to ascertain whether a tutorial includes something new and useful or just rehashes basic beginner stuff
I know that looking at the transcript kinda does this, but it gets irritating for longer videos
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if your primary emotion while learning to code is frustration, and not curiosity, you are unfortunately not going to make it far
programming is about beating your head against increasingly complex problems and it still somehow remaining fun
we all have our things
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Sort of disagree. Learning frustration management has been just as important as any other skill in my coding career.
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