How (and why) to Ramble on your goat sideways
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Skip visual studio. Start with a basic linux install. Get a C compiler. Learn to use a basic text editor (VIM/EMACS)
Learn C first.
Then try python.
Learning python first teaches a lot of bad habits that can't/shouldn't be done in other languages.
You will have a basic text editor with any platform. Visual studio you wont.
Learn C first.
Then try python.
Learning python first teaches a lot of bad habits that can't/shouldn't be done in other languages.
You will have a basic text editor with any platform. Visual studio you wont.
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Or you could go to the other extreme and start with assembler by reading the coprocessor code for the megasquirt.
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You will go crazy trying to read megasquirt code.
Java is not bad to start with either. Depends on what you want to do. Java also has decent IDEs.
But IMO you shouldn't learn to code in an IDE, it will be a crutch and slow you down later on.
Java is not bad to start with either. Depends on what you want to do. Java also has decent IDEs.
But IMO you shouldn't learn to code in an IDE, it will be a crutch and slow you down later on.
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Why do people get so offended when you pass them on open backroads?
2 situations on different stretches of the same road, only my car and their car, speed limit 45mph.
Person 1: Creeps around the corners at 30mph, never crosses 40mph on the straight, so I pass. He blasts his horn at me.
Person 2: Actually reaches the speed limit, but then fluctuates between 40-45mph, so I pass. He immediately speeds up to me to 60mph until he's practically tailgating (about a car length behind when we're literally the only cars on this stretch of road).
Wtf people. Cool the egos and realize that you're going slow as **** and people want to get places quicker than you do. /advicetooffendeddrivers
2 situations on different stretches of the same road, only my car and their car, speed limit 45mph.
Person 1: Creeps around the corners at 30mph, never crosses 40mph on the straight, so I pass. He blasts his horn at me.
Person 2: Actually reaches the speed limit, but then fluctuates between 40-45mph, so I pass. He immediately speeds up to me to 60mph until he's practically tailgating (about a car length behind when we're literally the only cars on this stretch of road).
Wtf people. Cool the egos and realize that you're going slow as **** and people want to get places quicker than you do. /advicetooffendeddrivers
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The reason why i started with python and Visual Studio is because its easier so I can get my feet wet quicker. Once the semester starts i'll learn whatever they are teaching. The thing is i really dont want to join a course if i cant do it at all.
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I generally double down on my "offensive behavior" if someone honks their horn at me while I'm trying to overcome their own *******/offensive behavior. It often works as: I'm in slow condensed traffic and need to make a lane change, I turn on my signal and begin my lane change, about the time I'm crossing the white line someone comes from the opposite side of the road, cuts around behind me, and tries to stick their nose in the lane that I'm getting into. I complete my lane change, they have to slam on the brakes and get all honky, and so I stop in front of them. I wouldn't have given a **** if they hadn't honked at me as if I were in the wrong, I definitely saw them cut across two lanes to get into the lane that I was entering, I definitely know they are there, and I definitely don't care.
The similar situation occurs when someone from behind me decides to make an unsignaled lane change into my destination lane after I turn on my turn signal and commit to the lane change - generally, by the time I've signaled my lane change, I've already verified that the lane is clear and that you don't have your signal on behind me in order to get over. Give me a flash or two of the turn signal, and that lane would have been all yours; now you're behind me going slower than you were if you would have just been thoughtful of others and not decided to honk at my behavior correction.
The similar situation occurs when someone from behind me decides to make an unsignaled lane change into my destination lane after I turn on my turn signal and commit to the lane change - generally, by the time I've signaled my lane change, I've already verified that the lane is clear and that you don't have your signal on behind me in order to get over. Give me a flash or two of the turn signal, and that lane would have been all yours; now you're behind me going slower than you were if you would have just been thoughtful of others and not decided to honk at my behavior correction.
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codeacedemy.org is where you want to go to learn basics. They have great online tutorials where you don't need to install anything to learn different languages. Realistically python is not a bad language to start with. It does have some negatives long term, but it can get you thinking like a developer. Depending on what you want to actually work on will determine where you want to spend time studying. Java/Scala/F#/Ruby if you want to do more web sided stuff. C/C++ are good if you want to do standalone apps. The real thing is once you learn one programming language, learning others becomes much easier.
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I generally double down on my "offensive behavior" if someone honks their horn at me while I'm trying to overcome their own *******/offensive behavior. It often works as: I'm in slow condensed traffic and need to make a lane change, I turn on my signal and begin my lane change, about the time I'm crossing the white line someone comes from the opposite side of the road, cuts around behind me, and tries to stick their nose in the lane that I'm getting into. I complete my lane change, they have to slam on the brakes and get all honky, and so I stop in front of them. I wouldn't have given a **** if they hadn't honked at me as if I were in the wrong, I definitely saw them cut across two lanes to get into the lane that I was entering, I definitely know they are there, and I definitely don't care.
The similar situation occurs when someone from behind me decides to make an unsignaled lane change into my destination lane after I turn on my turn signal and commit to the lane change - generally, by the time I've signaled my lane change, I've already verified that the lane is clear and that you don't have your signal on behind me in order to get over. Give me a flash or two of the turn signal, and that lane would have been all yours; now you're behind me going slower than you were if you would have just been thoughtful of others and not decided to honk at my behavior correction.
The similar situation occurs when someone from behind me decides to make an unsignaled lane change into my destination lane after I turn on my turn signal and commit to the lane change - generally, by the time I've signaled my lane change, I've already verified that the lane is clear and that you don't have your signal on behind me in order to get over. Give me a flash or two of the turn signal, and that lane would have been all yours; now you're behind me going slower than you were if you would have just been thoughtful of others and not decided to honk at my behavior correction.
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It doesn't take 35+ seconds to complete a pass on the highway and move out of the way.
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Google the average salary of a CNC Machinist and weep, is it really any wonder nobody wants to do CNC ****? It's a skilled trade, and it pays ******* garbage. Plumbers can and do make much more.
G-code is pretty much done anymore, too. It's conversational or CAM, in my experience. 99.9% of the dudes 3d printing stuff have no idea what G0 do, and it ain't pokemons.
G-code is pretty much done anymore, too. It's conversational or CAM, in my experience. 99.9% of the dudes 3d printing stuff have no idea what G0 do, and it ain't pokemons.
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First thing on google is average salary of 47k in the highest states. I think that's for a CNC operator. Meaning the guy who loads the machine, sets tool heights, pushes the buttons.
If you can program the machine, you'll easily make double that if you're good.
yah, plumbers will make more, but there was a discussion on 'programming'. not the same type of programming I know.
If you can program the machine, you'll easily make double that if you're good.
yah, plumbers will make more, but there was a discussion on 'programming'. not the same type of programming I know.
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I call the first a button pusher, the latter is someone I'd expect to hand either a simple print for conversational programming, or pre-made code for something more complicated. The first shop I worked at, button pushers were paid $8.00/hr.
I had to quit my first job at a "real" job shop. I was doing all the mastercam, solidworks modeling, mazatrol programming, networking and backup, waterjet nesting, flat pattern making, earning 55k a year.
The dude had the ***** to tell me he thought I was already overpaid. Other jobs here in the Midwest aren't much better. Only reason I make anything reasonable now is I've found a few old customers who want to set up their own shops rather than deal with the shop I used to work for, so I'm doing that.
The only reason I continue is I'll probably be in a pretty swell place if the burger making machines ever come to fruition.
I had to quit my first job at a "real" job shop. I was doing all the mastercam, solidworks modeling, mazatrol programming, networking and backup, waterjet nesting, flat pattern making, earning 55k a year.
The dude had the ***** to tell me he thought I was already overpaid. Other jobs here in the Midwest aren't much better. Only reason I make anything reasonable now is I've found a few old customers who want to set up their own shops rather than deal with the shop I used to work for, so I'm doing that.
The only reason I continue is I'll probably be in a pretty swell place if the burger making machines ever come to fruition.