Becoming techbro: the jadis journey

jadis · 03-01-2023, 03:42 PM

This will be about my slow and tentative (and likely torturous, though I full intend to enjoy myself) attempts to acquire the basics of programming. I love the idea of being an absolute beginner.

AI or, as some insist, Machine Learning is all the rage today so that's my general direction. What are the building blocks you need to grasp the nuts and bolts of these things and not just the general ideas.

Gotta start somewhere and I like the outline this guy proposes, though I don't have the time to keep with his timeline:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtolixa9XTg

jadis · 03-04-2023, 10:57 AM

print ("Hello, MusicBanter!")

This is how long it took me to acquire the tech bro humor

Thanks to a great recommendation I'm now learning Python on Mimo, which is basically Duolingo for coding. It's working.

jadis · 03-07-2023, 08:55 AM

For my money the most important skill for learning new stuff is realizing you have to put on hold your natural need to understand how everything works and where it fits in the bigger picture, cause at the outset you don't have the tools to begin to comprehend any of that. So just content yourself with identifying Booleans and strings and fstrings and negation and other types of commands and operators and at some point you'll slowly begin to realize what they're for and how they fit in the larger structure.

I like how he breaks down mastery of Python into several levels. Right now I'm at 0 obviously, doubt I'll ever make it beyond 2 in his classification or that I'd ever need to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE4f...nnel=Afternerd

03-01-2023, 03:42 PM	#1 (permalink)
jadis Music Addict Join Date: Jun 2021 Location: dont ask Posts: 1,231	Becoming techbro: the jadis journey This will be about my slow and tentative (and likely torturous, though I full intend to enjoy myself) attempts to acquire the basics of programming. I love the idea of being an absolute beginner. AI or, as some insist, Machine Learning is all the rage today so that's my general direction. What are the building blocks you need to grasp the nuts and bolts of these things and not just the general ideas. Gotta start somewhere and I like the outline this guy proposes, though I don't have the time to keep with his timeline: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtolixa9XTg

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03-04-2023, 10:57 AM	#2 (permalink)
jadis Music Addict Join Date: Jun 2021 Location: dont ask Posts: 1,231	print ("Hello, MusicBanter!") This is how long it took me to acquire the tech bro humor Thanks to a great recommendation I'm now learning Python on Mimo, which is basically Duolingo for coding. It's working.

03-07-2023, 08:55 AM	#3 (permalink)
jadis Music Addict Join Date: Jun 2021 Location: dont ask Posts: 1,231	For my money the most important skill for learning new stuff is realizing you have to put on hold your natural need to understand how everything works and where it fits in the bigger picture, cause at the outset you don't have the tools to begin to comprehend any of that. So just content yourself with identifying Booleans and strings and fstrings and negation and other types of commands and operators and at some point you'll slowly begin to realize what they're for and how they fit in the larger structure. I like how he breaks down mastery of Python into several levels. Right now I'm at 0 obviously, doubt I'll ever make it beyond 2 in his classification or that I'd ever need to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE4f...nnel=Afternerd