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Cake day: November 16th, 2024

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  • Not sure if you’ve tried reading any textbooks? (I only see mention of Documentation or youtube)

    But depending on the language you’d like to learn there’s a wide range of textbooks with different writing styles! Some that are more dry, dense, hard to parse; and others that are written in a friendlier manner which can be helpful for newer folks.

    A big plus they typically also have excercises at the end of chapters along the lines of “write a program that accomplishes this goal” or “write a guessing game that works like this”.

    You don’t have to hit them exactly but they can also be helpful for sparking ideas of a program that you would actually like to write!

    There’s also things like Rustlings or Ziglings that are designed to help you learn the language through solving code exercises, personally I really enjoyed Ziglings


  • Completly off topic, but English is such a frustrating written language. Re-read (is that past-tense or future-tense? unimportant!) the first part of the headline several times because I was reading:

    Alphabet shares (as in file share) record (as in Guiness World) their worst day ever

    Then pausing to try and decide if my brain was melting or there was a grammatical error; turns out I just read it poorly!

    Whoever decided things like they’re, their, there should all sound the same, and read, read should look the same; I wish them the worst day on record.