Ancestors

Written by BlueMonday1984@awful.systems on 2024-12-16 at 00:00

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd December 2024

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Written by saucerwizard@awful.systems on 2024-12-17 at 20:09

OT: how would you guys recommend learning to program?

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Written by sc_griffith@awful.systems on 2024-12-18 at 03:14

well, first you’ll need a solid grounding in the theory of categories

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Written by sc_griffith@awful.systems on 2024-12-18 at 03:17

that was a joke. anyway I’m not much of a programmer but I have found I’ve learned a lot from working on godot stuff, so I second that recommendation

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Toot

Written by saucerwizard@awful.systems on 2024-12-18 at 04:07

The only thing I’m worried about is the math, I’m flying blind there.

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Descendants

Written by khalid_salad on 2024-12-18 at 11:47

I think you would need to deliberately choose a mathematical problem to solve, otherwise the most difficult thing you’ll come across will be binary representations of numbers and why floats are FUCKING BULLSHIT (seriously though they can be tricky if you think they are just “numbers in a calculator”).

If you want to really understand programming language theory, or computer science more generally, you will definitely need mathematics. But if the goal is “I want to tell this chip what to do,” you don’t need to learn a lot of math, in my opinion.

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Written by saucerwizard@awful.systems on 2024-12-18 at 21:27

I appreciate that, thanks!

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Written by sc_griffith@awful.systems on 2024-12-18 at 20:01

most people who are considered skilled programmers seem to know very little math (by my arbitrary standards), so I wouldn’t worry about it

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Written by YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems on 2024-12-18 at 23:19

There are three kinds of programmers. From smallest to largest: Those smart enough to write good math-intensive libraries, those dumb about to think they can, and those smart enough to just use what the first kind made.

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