How does one get good at coding/programming? I just finihsed college classes I learnt a bunch of stuff and syntax of many languages but I havent actually made normal stuff other than web stuff with html, css, javascript. How do I make actual something with java, C++ or C# for portfolio so I get hired for internship?
>>109770789>he hasn't self-taught since 16 at the absolute latestNGMI, I say that as kindly as possible. College programmers are complete poison. If your teachers were good programmers they wouldn't be teaching.
>>109770816>t. codes since 16>look inside>autismo shit nobody cares about>>109770789>How does one get good at coding/programming? just code/program?try doing the /g/ coding challenges
>>109770816>many teachers work at succesful companies>they teach to get even more free money for barely anything
who tf cares about fucking PROGRAMMING in 2026, just use ai
>realize you want to make a feasible thing>learn how to make that thingFrom there, learn how to use various tools and libraries to make that thing easier to make and perform better.>How do I make actual something with...?What do you want to make? If you can't answer that, then maybe do something else.
>>109770949>just give all your money to altman so he can steal your workPass.
>>109770961>>109770949 bruh im looking for a job most things are alrready made so im not sure what to make other than a website which I did, making another to do app is useless
>>109770982>so im not sureDo something else.
>>109770789start to learn how to build data centers, coding is over
>>109770789>coding in the big 26Ngmi luddite
>>109770844I'm from college myself, have been coding since 13 or so. I only had 2 teachers who were not retards, but one of them was a full blown furry autist vibe coder. Most my my classmates were nocode retards, and it felt like I was the only one who cared and even did something lolI like the replies here though, because you really sounds like most of my classmates, even the stack is similar, and I'd never want to see people like them in the industry and glad they all work as delivers and go to the university in hopes that this will get them a job
>>109770789Brother if you’ve not been coding since age 9-10 it’s already overYou learn by trying crazy projects that fail but you learned trying over and over again
>>109770789Try something challenging, writing a web server in C maybe. Follow along with The C Programming Language (K&R) bookEmbedded (ESP32 / STM32) projects are a good place to practice applied systems code and very basic multithreading. Shader code in GLSL (or CUDA) is a very rewarding avenue as well with a lot of potential applications.>html, css, javascriptYou are disgustingly wasting your time touching web development in 2026Focus on signals or high performance compute if you want to get ahead.
>8 years ago>"heh, learn 2 code,lol">Ai takes that job and does it betterlol,lmao
>>109770789just code every day, doesn't matter if 30 minutes or 5 hours, just do something./thread
>>1097707894 things-find something to make-break it into list of things to make-do a thing-repeat till done
>>109770789Same way you get good at anything. You practice
>>109770816fact. i have never met anyone that knew how to program if he wasn't already doing it prior to going to higher education
>>109770789https://github.com/codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x
have to listen to what technologists say, for example> Obama is a traitor, Snowden is a traitor> T.Davisthen you become proficient
>>109770789>get good at coding>in 2026sorry but you wre 20 years late, 2000s was the last decade when learning to code would have given you a steady job
>>109776963the formula is already finished, why is he writing there
>>109770789It must be harder now to properly learn programming when you have the AI doing everything. For example, I don't manually program anymore at least for webshit
>>109770789>How do I make stuffThe short answer is to just make stuff. The longer answer can get quite long, but really, you just make stuff. Pick something that you think would be interesting, and work backwards. Problem decomposition is the name of the game, and this is what you should have learned during your time in school. Break it down until it's a bunch of trivial parts, and then put those parts back together into the the larger thing. It's not easy, but you have the skills to do it. That said, unfortunately, programming is becoming less valuable. There was a time when just knowing how to code would get you a job. Then things changed, and programing became a valuable auxiliary skill, when it was augmenting some other domain expertise. Now, with ai-asisted development, even that is gone. Domain expertise is all there is. If you don't have any yet, then you're not in a very good position. You have to get good at some domain outside of programming. You can use programming as the vehicle to get there, but you need to do it.
>>109770789It doesn't matter, and getting good at programming or math or any STEM field is a total waste of time. I would drop out and just explore the world right now since there's not much time left. We're all going to be slaughtered by AI in less than 3 years. You're not going to be hired for anything. You'll be dead.
>>109777154I would rather just die forever and live again or embrace the uncertainty of death.
>>109777235Why can't we ban AI and go back to normal?
>>109777663AI is the future. We're heading to Star Trek, sci fi world. Everything you saw on TV and more. Most exciting fucking time to be alive and you demoralized little FAGS need to lighten up and embrace the POSSIBILITY
>>109770789spend your whole life trying to recreate cowsay
>>109777569I'm not sure what this is supposed to mean or how it relates to my post, but good luck.
>>109770789I wrote my first code at age 5. Got more serious around 8 or 9 in elementary school "computer class" that was just math class disguised as playing with computers using logo, actually started using a real language (Pascal) at age 11 or 12, along with learning HTML and a bunch of low level binary shit modding a game. Learned functional programming via Scheme in math classes in high school and learned C++ in proper AP computer science class. Learned Java, played around with some other languages on my own. Started doing a bunch of personal projects in C++/Java. Started college already ready for the second year classes. Did all the usual stuff. Low level, high level, algorithms, compilers, a bunch of AI stuff that predated all the current models but comes very much in handy now for understanding how they work, not as much networking/IT as I should have.Didn't go to work in the industry. Fuck that. I'd have gotten fired and replaced by an H1B by now anyway. Did my own stuff instead. Constantly working on my own projects. Improving with practice. Going back and rewriting old stuff. Learned Python and immediately regretted not learning Python sooner, and Python hadn't even really taken over yet for data science/AI. Started doing a lot more projects in Python. Still some C/C++. Switched to Linux. Constantly doing small bash script projects, and some larger automation projects. Got into networking, net code, home lab stuff running my own services. Dev ops, Kubernetes, Docker all that shit.None of that made me good at programming, not really. It made me good at learning, and utterly unafraid of picking up any new language, API, or tool that's out there.What made me good, and I'm still not what I'd call great but I can and have tackled some big "actual somethings" over the years and completed them, was looking at other people's code. Get into open source projects and just read the code. See what actual real code looks like. Contribute patches, if you can. Try.
>>109777685Sorry anon altman said the llms are gonna kill us.
Imagine wasting your lifespan writing code , especially now that we have ai.
>>109778458>Didn't go to work in the industry. Fuck thatwhat do you even do for a living? if you're this invested in this """"hobby"""" surely it spilled over your professional life
>>109778524I was a freelance writer for a while, now I'm (mostly) in agriculture. I've integrated tech into everything I've done professionally or for fun my whole life. Currently I do a lot of embedded systems and automation around the farm, along with extensive data collection on all kinds of metrics and some rudimentary AI models for finding optimizations (I had that idea before LLMs were even a thing). Some years back I got into custom PCBs and microcontrollers. Lots of IoT type stuff, mesh networks, etc.I like to DYI everything if possible, control every aspect and be able to have everything do exactly what I want. I'm old enough to have seen enough cycles of enshittification that I don't like relying on corporate entities not to fuck up my workflows. And that's a pretty good way of getting good at programming: don't ever use other people's software if you can write your own. Right now I'm building my own RSS reader. There are other good RSS readers, but mine will run headlines through a de-bias LLM, figure out when there's actual breaking news that I would care about and ping me, and email me the top stories every morning to glance over.If I could do it all over again, I don't know if I'd still go to college, but I'd lean hard into the IT and CE paths, study data science, learn the coding aspect mostly self-taught and studying open source projects, and try to get a leg up on learning all the physical hardware stuff and making it all talk to each other. The marketing class I took one term has also come in handy. Some other stuff would've been helpful, but it's so easy to learn new things with the internet and eBooks I don't really know why anyone bothers getting a degree now unless their professional path absolutely requires it for state licensing.Anyway, I've always been an entrepreneur. If I was going to "really" work in tech, I would do a start-up of some kind, instead of trying to get hired.
Programming internship in 2026? Why are you people so retarded. Or is it just some kind of self delusion? You don't want to open your eyes and see reality for what it is.
>>109770816Yeah I will never understand why people go into CS expecting a job if it wasn't already their passion. It's a very specific type of engineering that's only good for turbo autists who actually enjoy solving logic problems and coming up with systems.Programmers should be paid less.
>>109770789the same way you get good at drawing: by drawing 1000 pictures and learning from each one. if you aren't good at coding its because you're a lazy moron who hasn't written 1000 programs
