I figured out what coding is

a step by step guide for how to success code no problem

I’ve been computer coding for a few days now and can say with a confidence interval of 100, that programming is basically just doing this:

1. copy stuff from an e-book or internet

2. run the program in the “command prompt” (you gotta hand it to em, the computer people know how to name stuff sexy)

3. get an error

4. copy that error into google

5. click on a stackoverflow link that loosely corresponds to what you asked

6. scroll down and find the most upvoted answer

7. follow the instructions in the answer

8. run the program in command prompt

9. get an error

10. copy that error into google

11. click on a stackoverflow link that loosely corresponds to what you asked

12. scroll down and find the most upvoted answer

13. follow the instructions in the answer

14. run the program in command prompt

15. get an error

16. copy that error into google

17. click on a stackoverflow link that loosely corresponds to what you asked

18. scroll down and find the most upvoted answer

19. follow the instructions in the answer

20. run the program in command prompt

21. IT WORKS!

22. follow the next step in the book or whatever tutorial you’re using doesn’t matter

23. get an error

24. copy that error into google

25. click on a stackoverflow link that says basically exactly the same thing as you said

26. IT WORKS!

27. follow the next step in the book or whatever tutorial you’re using doesn’t matter

28. IT WORKS!

29. follow the next step in the book or whatever tutorial you’re using doesn’t matter

30. IT WORKS!

31. follow the next step in the book or whatever tutorial you’re using doesn’t matter

32. get an error

The goal, it appears, is to get it all to work without any errors. I have not achieved this goal.

My tools

Again, who is naming this stuff? Why not call computers ‘wizard orbs.’ Instead we got em in the same bucket as hammers and douschbags.

• I’m on a Windows (that I built myself using my bare hands and materials I found in the trash heap)

• so to actually write the code, you use an IDE which believe it or not stands for Idiot. I started out using Visual Basic Code and then also got Visual Basic but then a book said a great beginner IDE was something called Mu. As a big KLF fan, I was, as it were, all bound for Mu Mu land.

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• I mean look at how different the UI are for these two apps. Mu feels like a game I’d play on one of those Mac bubble computers we had in 5th grade, while VB feels like a gazette for some dystopian future tech city I would want to run from as soon as I could.

Mu

Visual Basic

Tips

This is a section for tips but I don’t have any yet so…

Questions

• Is it okay that I’m using ChatGPT for basically everything? Surely it is making me way faster, but does it mean I’m not actually learning anything?

• Are frameworks bad? According to The Recurse Center, which is a dope and FREE school I was recommended to learn how to become a better programmer, they are. As part of their instructions for how to prepare for the admission interview, they say this:

• What are frameworks even and are they bad? Like what is Flask? Seems cool!

Next Steps

In the next post, I will pick a language to focus on. I already know its going to be python because I’ve already started learning it so it’ll be a super short post maybe. Who knows.

If you have questions or ideas or think I should stop doing this please let me know!