Can I learn to code?>19 yo

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Anonymous 02/09/16 (Tue) 05:57:01 e66e0b No.3920

Can I learn to code?

>19 yo

Anonymous 02/09/16 (Tue) 11:29:10 7523c0 No.3922

Maybe.

Anonymous 02/10/16 (Wed) 04:31:40 098715 No.3925

>>3920

Why now?

Anonymous 02/10/16 (Wed) 11:12:43 e950bf No.3926

Yes, but you'll have to work twice as hard for a few years unless you want to be forever inferior to the guys who started when they were 10.

Anonymous 02/11/16 (Thu) 03:46:56 01bb58 No.3931

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Yes, why not? It's not rocket science, in general it's much easier than drawing/writing/music/etc. Wrap your head around imperative paradigm, learn the syntax of language of your choice, you can be writing simple programs in a month.

Anonymous 02/11/16 (Thu) 09:05:18 f2862b No.3932

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>>3925

Why not? I'm 40 in a week and have been toying around with C since last fall and eyeing C++.

>>3931

>rocket science

Is the most pleb science there is. Just basic ballistics, nothing more. It's no coincidence that Failasia has a space program but still has a ban on sex toys and thinks that money is some kind of black jewish magic.

Anonymous 02/12/16 (Fri) 01:28:22 098715 No.3935

>>3932

Why now and not before?

Anonymous 02/12/16 (Fri) 20:46:22 56427a No.3937

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>>3920

No, you should have been coding since 2 and dreaming in code forevermore.

/thread

Anonymous 02/13/16 (Sat) 04:13:59 14fa45 No.3941

If you have to ask, then no.

Anonymous 02/13/16 (Sat) 10:35:33 5d46c0 No.3942

>>3920

No, it's literally too late, your brain is too old to learn anything new. If by now you haven't learned what you want to do in life, you might as well kill yourself.

Anonymous 02/13/16 (Sat) 11:38:35 b939cb No.3943

Yes, I started at 17.

>>3926

That's a really shitty advice. That means whoever is not a prodigy is a loser. Do you think of yourself as loser?

1. 99% of programmers aren't the best.

2. You'll always be inferior to someone, regardless of what you do.

3. You can still learn enough to be decent or even good.

Anonymous 02/13/16 (Sat) 13:43:35 000000 No.3944

>>3920

>Can I learn to code?

Yes. Any idiot can bang out a Python script.

Ready for this?


print("Hello, world!")

Congratulations. Now you know how to write "Hello, world!" in

about twenty different programming languages.

To be good at programming, you'll need to understand:

> Basic logic

> Algorithms, and how and when to apply them

Once you've got both of those under your belt, learning a programming language is just a matter of picking up its syntax, quirks, and libraries.

Helpful, but not necessarily required:

> Maths

In short, you do not need to be a master of set theory in order to make a grocery list.

Anonymous 02/15/16 (Mon) 17:06:53 f2862b No.3954

>>3935

Beats me. Life happened.

Anonymous 02/18/16 (Thu) 06:07:54 41851e No.3964

>>3920

If your mother didn't play audiotapes of Assembly scripts read aloud when you were in utero, you might as well just give up now.

Anonymous 02/19/16 (Fri) 00:11:02 53c101 No.3969

>>3954

Life hasn't happened to you yet son. You've only had hair on your balls for 4 years.

You're starting younger than most who are employed to program professionally. The stuff that kids program is garbage and your frontal cortex isn't fully formed until after the age of 25. This isn't like learning a spoken language. It's logical syntaxical expression.

The plebs propagating the child programmer myths also thought we'd be driving flying cars by now, so start learning and stop asking.

The worst thing you'll develop is a new skill.

Anonymous 02/19/16 (Fri) 06:03:52 c75429 No.3971

>>3969

That dude just turned 40, though. Happy birthday, f2862b!

Anyway, this is mostly true. You have to bear in mind however that university hacker culture trickled down to computer-savvy kids as early as the 70's (Bill Gates and RMS - they both started young.) Even Zuckerjew had a headstart on coding.

The younger the better, and OP you are a freaking kid. You haven't lived even 2 decades.

Get out there and write some software, boy-o.

Anonymous 02/26/16 (Fri) 22:19:19 d452e8 No.3988

>>3920

yes, but not by asking stupid questions on the internet.