#computer coding

[hotfudgecherryrosy]

Hi! Little update on the Quizlet-like app, henceforth known and tagged as Innaflash. (One of my friend's ideas, and I'm a sucker for puns :) )

Tl;dr of below is i'd like opinions on the UI mockup so far, maybe some alternative color theme ideas.

No coding has happened yet, but I started making a UI mockup to get the brain juices going and also bc i just love messing around with color themes and graphic design, hee hee. I think I'm going with a webcore theme. Default will be purple, but there will be the option to change the theme (i already have the code for this so it's easy to implement). A couple images are above, I'd like to hear what you all think :)

[n0kt3rnal]

I want to take a crack at learning how to code 👩‍💻 but have no idea how to get started learning in programming or what languages are the most useful to learn. Help anyone?

[ash-the-porcupine]

You know, if I could do Algebra II and Geometry, my life would be so much easier. Then there's JavaScript. I hate it. I don't like the fact that I'll have to do college before vet school. Being able to spell epinephrine should make me qualified. XD

[flaming-rollsroyce-blaring-queen]

Ok, so I don't know if this is anything, but recently I've had to pivot career paths due to budget cuts and disability. While surfing the job sites for remote options, I've noticed that there are a crazy amount of people looking for IT workers, but the thing is, I cannot afford college. That's ok, I've been hitting the books and apps, and I'll get my certifications that way if need be. I've been working for about 6 months this way.

But here's where I come to the masses. I'm currently typing up my own notes because the apps and books kinda sound like my FiL who is awesome when it comes to this kind of stuff, but has been doing all of this since the infancy of the internet. It's all a bit above my head. So I'm trying to translate it into my own terms, so it's like I'm talking to myself.

Now the notes are still in their begining stages, but I'm starting off with the Holy Trinity: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. When I get finished with them, would you guys like me to share it to Tumblr so you still get access to like a layman's textbook? I can't give certification, and if one wanted to add onto it all they'd have to do is message, but I'd like to help make learning more relatable.

This is a heads up, my words are crude, my grammar is not scholarly, and I can't exactly promise you it's free of swear words. But it is more fun to read than anything I've read so far, I can promise that. Some quotes include:

"Don't get your knickers in a bunch, I'll talk more about character sets later"

" <title> Holy Crap, A Web Page</title> "

"You tap [the encoding tab] and select UTF-8, again, because it's the sexy man of HTML coding"

So feel free to DM me if anyone would be up for some free chaotic coding notes. I would love to learn of any other free resources to utilize while writing this first set of notes. I hope to include Python, Kotlin, Swift, and C++; and if I can find any surviving ancient texts, Pascal, just because it'd be really cool to be able to talk with my father in law about it because we don't have too much in common.

Until then, I will keep reading and writing, and I hope what I can contribute will make somebody's life a bit easier and their education a bit more entertaining.

[sketchymallow]

Guys! Guys!! Guysssss!!! I started learning HTML a few days ago and I’m so excited!!!

[reputayswift]

In the 2000s you sat a kid in front of a Neopets pet page and they’d learn the fundamentals of html within the hour

[kirbyisswag]

I love my nea work

[hotfudgecherryrosy]

Thinking about making a free quizlet alternative in java, I'd like suggestions on modes to add. Maybe I'll put it on github or something if I end up with a usable product so others can use it? (More details under cut)

Using quizlet for the first time in awhile and DAMN it sucks. Not only was the whole UI changed and made worse/ more corporate, EVERYTHING requires a membership now??? The asteroid mode (my favorite </3) was either removed or made pay only. Literally scrapping what i can thats free to study. Ik i can get a free trial but its about the principal.

ANYWAY. I've been building a java library that builds off FX (graphics library) that has made making programs w/ graphics quicker and easier. Plus, I already made a typing game similar to the asteroid mode in high school. Basically everything would be super easy to code I think, once I have the time.

Any suggestions on modes/ features I should make?

[definite-human]

Wait, ok, so the last one really caught in my brain and now I have to expand.

Ages ago I learned about how, in the middle ages, religion and everyday life were intertwined in these ways that could seem weird and superstitious, but which were actually super practical. The detail I remember most was how recipes using the Lord's Prayer in order to gauge oven temperature - something along the lines of "the oven is at the right temperature when you put your arm in and start reciting the Lord's Prayer and have to remove it at such-and-such line"

There were loads of more examples of using standard prayers as a means of keeping time etc. in various food and medical recipes, and the thing was, in all likelihood people didn't differentiate between "the recipe/medicine works because it was prepared properly" and "it works because it was prepared with God's blessing". That was just how the world worked - if you did things in the traditional pious way, they generally came out right.

But now I'm imagining like...steampunk computer coding. Given how mainstream Christianity was in Europe, it's incredibly plausible that people coming up with programming languages would incorporate elements of liturgy - be it from genuine piety/seeking devine assistance, to passive superstition ("I don't think God's *likely* to prevent computer bugs, but it can't hurt"), to just taking advantage of the ease of communicating in fixed and relatively universal terms.

All of which is to say: exorcising a rogue AI thanks to that being hard-coded as a self-destruct mechanism is a) incredibly plausible and b) introduces some truly delicious world building possibilities

(Obviously all of this is extremely European & Christianity-centric, an unfortunate inevitably given my upbringing and education. Others with differing perspectives/experiences are encouraged share how those interact with these ideas!)

Huge huge fan of anachronistic interactions in my writing ideas. Using modern firearms to fight mythical monsters, using swords and shields to fight killer robots, powering computers with coal or gasoline, using a nuclear reactor to power a clockwork automata, space suits that look like diving apparatus from the 1800s, modern skyscrapers in the middle of stone and straw villages, using MRI machines to determine where you need a hole drilled in your head to let the ghosts out, killer AI being banishable by holy rituals that have unknowingly incorporated override codes, do you understand yet???

[likeanegg]

TURNED IN MY LAST PROJECT SEMETER'S OFFICIALLY OVER BITCHES

[genderweird-computer-kisser]

Funny goofy signs I made with this site.

[glitchdollmemoria]

programming nerds (hobbyist or professional or otherwise) PLEASE infodump to me about your favorite coding language. in the tags or the reblogs or the comments idc

[53rdcenturyhero]

The 1:1 scale map is about to arrive... The original is in use & can't be folded up to be borrowed atm...

til the maximum size of a pdf is 381 x 381 km