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I have been out to myself and a handful of others as a girl for a few months now but have been without a name other than my legal name. I am provisionally going with the name Willow for myself. This may change at any minute and if I do change my mind I will reblog this post with the updated choice.

IMPORTANT: offline, I am NOT out as transgender. If you know me IRL then please deadname me and use he/him for me when in public unless otherwise requested! Basically, I am only coming out as Willow she/her to people who know about my Tumblr blog, which intentionally does not include my parents or my employer! I will be removing my deadname from my blog, so if you don’t know me offline, you don’t need to know what it is :3

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methanoly asked:

Hi, hope I'm not bothering

I recall commenting something about wanting to learn programming a few months or so back, and I've been searching for some sort of community or forum where a beginner could go but I'm not really coming up with anything. I guess the question is, if it's not a pain, do you have any advice on where I could go, or your personal account or something?

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you’re not bothering me. I actually don’t know of a great place for a beginner to get started. I taught myself without any comprehensive guide, but perhaps I can offer a bit of advice and some helpful resources

  • A huge obstacle to a beginner learning to code is their hesitancy to [SEARCH ENGINE] things. In school you’re taught that you have to keep all the information in your head because [SEARCH ENGINE]ing is not allowed on The Test. but in software, you have to (have to) unlearn this tendency. You have to recognize when there’s something you don’t know, whether it’s big or small, profound or dumb, and go directly to [SEARCH ENGINE] without a second thought. but remember: stay away from any websites that try to get money from you, complain about your adblocker, or try to make you sign up for their mailing list.
  • The Jargon File and its glossary are entertaining and informative sources of info about the history and slang of “hacker culture”, i.e. programmers. It will help you read and understand the weird things that we write. It probably won’t help you get better at coding, though.
  • if you want to learn C specifically, I can think of no better resource than tutorialspoint.com. every feature in the C standard library is nicely documented with helpful examples on that website.
  • if you want to learn Javascript, check out the Mozilla Developer Network. they have content specifically aimed at complete beginners on there, check it out
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@methanoly so I might be about to directly contradict what I said, but I urge you to reconsider. I don’t think C++ is a good choice of first language. It’s a really, really hard language, one that even experts routinely make simple mistakes in. shit, the hello world program in C++ uses operator overloading, a feature I feel confident calling “advanced”. I do like the language, warts and all, but you should probably learn C first, since the entire C language (with some caveats) is part of C++. (Those caveats make it technically false that C is a “subset” of C++, and therefore you can’t just run C source code through a C++ compiler and expect it to work.)

if you do insist on learning C++ first, that’s an ambitious undertaking, but I should direct you to https://cppreference.com/, a comprehensive and very informative guide to C++ with examples. it is dense, though; it’s not written for beginners, due to the common wisdom that C++ is unsuitable for beginners.

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methanoly asked:

Hi, hope I'm not bothering

I recall commenting something about wanting to learn programming a few months or so back, and I've been searching for some sort of community or forum where a beginner could go but I'm not really coming up with anything. I guess the question is, if it's not a pain, do you have any advice on where I could go, or your personal account or something?

you’re not bothering me. I actually don’t know of a great place for a beginner to get started. I taught myself without any comprehensive guide, but perhaps I can offer a bit of advice and some helpful resources

  • A huge obstacle to a beginner learning to code is their hesitancy to [SEARCH ENGINE] things. In school you’re taught that you have to keep all the information in your head because [SEARCH ENGINE]ing is not allowed on The Test. but in software, you have to (have to) unlearn this tendency. You have to recognize when there’s something you don’t know, whether it’s big or small, profound or dumb, and go directly to [SEARCH ENGINE] without a second thought. but remember: stay away from any websites that try to get money from you, complain about your adblocker, or try to make you sign up for their mailing list.
  • The Jargon File and its glossary are entertaining and informative sources of info about the history and slang of “hacker culture”, i.e. programmers. It will help you read and understand the weird things that we write. It probably won’t help you get better at coding, though.
  • if you want to learn C specifically, I can think of no better resource than tutorialspoint.com. every feature in the C standard library is nicely documented with helpful examples on that website.
  • if you want to learn Javascript, check out the Mozilla Developer Network. they have content specifically aimed at complete beginners on there, check it out
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where can I find a film adaptation of Les Misérables that is in French and has FRENCH subtitles that MATCH THE AUDIO. and who the FUCK came up with the BULLSHIT idea that, for the subtitles in non-English language X for a piece of media originally written in language X, the subtitles should not match the original dialogue? what the fuck is up with that???

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where can I find a film adaptation of Les Misérables that is in French and has FRENCH subtitles that MATCH THE AUDIO. and who the FUCK came up with the BULLSHIT idea that, for the subtitles in non-English language X for a piece of media originally written in language X, the subtitles should not match the original dialogue? what the fuck is up with that???

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