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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @PlebeiusG 24 Feb 2023 \ parent \ on: Preaching to the choir here- Developers Look to Bitcoin bitcoin
I agree with you, but I feel you are likely very highly skilled and may have forgotten what it feels like to be 16 and be writing your first line of code. It can be life-changing.
Its cute that you think I'm advanced. I'm a ruby user who hasn't figured out how to use an IDE. I still don't know how to git version properly. Code wars helps, but it won't teach you git versioning or how to use an IDE.
I do remember being 16 writing ASCII art after ASCII art to create an animation for a batch script though. I do remember learning command prompt from the output of the help command with no access to the internet on a windows 97 computer. I do remember struggling for years to understand how an if statement works. Things are a lot better documented now than they were back then. I envy the 12 year olds of the current generation.
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Me too. I never had access to a real C compiler until 1998, at age 22. When I was all primed to get into it, it was really hard to find a free language environment to develop native apps on my beloved Amiga. As a consequence I got quite lost for the intervening 15 years or so until I galvanised on this goal of becoming an accomplished programmer around 2016, and got my first opportunity to learn-as-I-work on a bitcoin fork project.
The kids these days have a lot of advantages for gaining entry into the field. When I was a kid, the only route was getting a CS degree, and my school's delightful, socialist administration made sure I was unlikely to cool down after they so totally messed with privileges that were granted prior to the introduction of their social credit scheme.
And buying a compiler back in the 90s to build native apps? In today's prices, it was well over USD$5000 worth of expense, about 4k for the compiler licence and another 1k for the system API manuals.
Kids these days can dive into it and push out web apps and electron native apps in a matter of months if they are motivated. Even with my patchy history I was able to land some serious roles in shitcoins in 2021 due to my extensive Go programming experience from the 3 years prior.
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