I’ve always wanted to understand what is actually meant by this. I have wanted to get into programming for years, did some basic python and c, but could never really progress. Not necessarily a linux question but I know since most distros come with libraries already, it’s popular to use for programming.

I have trouble understanding what people are actually programming if it isn’t their job. Like, you go to your computer and start working on…what? I don’t know enough to make an entire program or debug a game, so im just unsure what people do especially when starting out.

Also I don’t really want to learn it for a job. I just want to learn it to know it. But im not sure how to apply it to anything realistic.

  • Fermiverse@gehirneimer.de
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    3 days ago

    I wrote two apps for android giving me access to health data of food, stored in a local database to work without net access.

    Then I wrote a software to mass-balance rotors with many exchangeable blades. Also software to encode/decode hex strings containing certain formated data. Both for windows.

    This happened sometimes several years inbetween. Scripting in bash, perl, php python for other computer and homecontrol stuff.

    As a hobby programmer I tought programming myself. Coming from VB6 era (I know I know) I sticked to that type of language syntax, not spaghetti code though.

    What I want to say is there is sometimes an idea and then stick to it and try to accomplish. Maybe its too complicated at first but then you learn until next time works out. Its a marathon not a sprint.