where do i even start to figure stuff out, what projects should i try? I have lots of familiarity with linux and some scripting idk how to progress further
honestly the best way is to figure out something to make and doing it
like try making the simplest games you can think of to start then move on to other things
had the same issue, but then started to study cs and while learning programming i just started to make a very random small AWT Programm to try out stuff and just started to extend the functionality with everything that then came to my mind
making the thing -> adding first functionality -> need to do persistence -> could add a online function via telnet -> could add smoll game etc.
helped me a lot more than overthinking like i did before
do you know what you want to learn or what interests you particular?
Honestly i dont even know what i want to make… like im just stuck.
ive wanted to get into hack the box type stuff tho/ cybersec, do you have any reccomendations?
In that direction i feel like i have the same Problem honestly I thought about just starting by reading the for dummies books, maybe sounds silly but already used one to get into the stuff that i needed for university
Do you use Linux? If so what IDE would you recommend: Idk if I’m ready to autism it up to learn the vim one
Emacs, but thats even moar autism https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs
Omg this even has a text editor!
vim aint to hard if you just go thru the vimtutor thats included!
edit:
- if you want a more IDE like experience use: https://github.com/nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim
take on progressively more ambitious projects! bonus points if you switch between languages for them. the biggest thing is make sure the projects are things that interest you. I did a lot of work on making programming languages and game solver ai (old school meaning) shit when i was starting out.
Game Dev can also be great because the skill floor of programming knowledge you need is relatively low and you get to have a fun product. You can also viscerally feel the code when you iterate on the player controller which is really cool
I’ve heard good things about https://www.freecodecamp.org/ There’s also this game that teaches javascript https://store.steampowered.com/app/1812820/Bitburner/ I do not know how to code yet so I can’t speak on the efficacy of these tools. The game is kinda cool tho
ah i have bitburner!
anyone know if boot.dev or roadmap.sh are worth looking into? or paying for in the case of the former
