Is there anyone interested in doing a group where we learn to code together? Using mostly free resources? And work on a common project, perhaps? Programming language is open for discussion.
#practicecoding
Gibt es Menschen die Interesse hätten an einer Gruppe, in der wir Programmieren lernen? Dabei v.a. freie Ressourcen nutzen? Und vll. an einem gemeinsamen projekt arbeiten? Programmiersprache ist noch offen. #practicecoding
@TQ I can code so I guess I'm out of that call, but I can help finding resources and answering questions.
@ekaitz_zarraga That is great! Do you have thoughts or recommendations about a project we could do together, as a group? And are there languages you would recommend?
@TQ It depends on what you want to learn.
Python is cool to start.
You can make... I don't know... a Mastodon bot?
It depends in your interests, I make simple scripts for myself, they are easy to do, but they are command line tools for my geek stuff. Maybe that's not very attractive for you.
@ekaitz_zarraga @TQ this is what most of my coding involves TBH, any graphics goes as far as ANSI colours :😁
But I think its important to start with this *first*, otherwise new coders could feel overwhelmed with trying to deal with GUI libraries, web servers etc. Especially if folk are on mixture of Windows, Linux and Mac desktops/laptops which is likely to happen!
There is a big "retro" trend amongst younger generations today, you can still get pretty colours/graphics (including 256 colours) with ANSI art, and Python can of course be used to generate basic (and more advanced) HTML content (although I haven't even advanced that far myself!)
@vfrmedia @TQ The good thing of python is handling libraries is quite easy.
I agree with you. Scripts are the best to make to avoid all the graphics, web and such, bit it's difficult to motivate people to make a script. :D