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Aella
@Aella_Girl
i know i have a lot of dramatic freakouts on twitter about learning coding but its also getting fun, i've started to get enough intuition that i can now come up with things to try, or google more effectively. Its shortening question+answer feedback loop, which is super helpful
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
like, before id put in a piece of code and run it and not deeply understand why it worked, even tho i got ppl to explain it to me. and i still don't, but i've done it enough times that im starting to recognize basic structures, and can change those structures successfully
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
i feel like i'm starting to barely hit the level at which n00b-targeted answers on substack are useful for, finally. level 0, where even n00b answers carried a billion assumptions i didnt understand, was really hard
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Nick Webb
@nickwebb
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@Aella_Girl
I can really recommend Edabit. It gives loads of small coding challenges and the increments of difficulty are small enough that it’s a non sucky way to make progress. Plus you learn a lot from seeing other people’s answers
Some Call Me Jim
@OpaqueLightbulb
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@Aella_Girl
Congrats! That's a big hurdle to overcome. It sounds like you're getting to a point where learning basic data structures and algorithms would be feasible, I'd strongly recommend any sort of course you can do on that.
MacTVMan
@MacTVMan
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@Aella_Girl
One of the great unintended consequences of my learning programming was how it affected my understanding of causation in m own life. I believe it made me a better and more logical thinker.