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Went to the library in Austin and saw a kid learning Python from a book.
I was grabbing a coffee and noticed this teenager working through a thick coding guide, writing everything out by hand in a notebook. I used to think you needed a fancy computer setup to start, but seeing him just use paper made me rethink that. What's the most basic tool you've used to learn a new programming language?
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the_jamie6mo ago
That's actually really cool to see. Makes you remember the basics matter more than the gear. I mean, @gonzalez.wesley's story about graph paper C++ checks out, that sounds brutal but probably super helpful. Honestly the most basic I got was learning some HTML by just looking at the page source on my family's old computer and trying to copy the bits I understood. No fancy editor, just notepad and a lot of guessing. Kind of miss that simple trial and error sometimes.
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gonzalez.wesley6mo ago
Honestly, my first C++ class in high school had us writing code on graph paper. The teacher would walk around and check our loops like it was a math quiz. Tbh it made you really think about each line before you ever touched a keyboard.
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