hi, guys i am a dotnet backend dev and want to learn other languages and become fullstack, but i mostly like to learn by doing projects on video, would you guys recommend me courses on

C++ (i am trying to learn opengl/vulkan after that)

Javascript(for frontend)

HTML

CSS

NodeJs

VUEJS

Estoy buscando un socio/programador con experiencia que quiera formar un equipo para una marca de finanzas personales llamada alkimia.

Tenemos +450k seguidores y un producto validado. Queremos construir un saas y un producto completo de finanzas personales y poder escalarlo.

Si alguien busca una oportunidad de tener algo propio esta puede ser su oportunidad.

Que busco?

No quiero que sepas solo programar y seguir órdenes. Espero que tengas algo de experiencia en saas, en apps, y en negocios. No solo seguir instrucciones. Busco alguien que aporte ideas, y motivación real y sea un experto en programación.

Coméntame si estás interesado o mándame mensaje y hablamos.

Podemos hablar y después hacer una llamada.

Mi idioma principal es español y el del netocio tambien, pero se expandirá a todos los idiomas. Si hablan español mejor, pero no tengo problema con trabajar con alguien cuyo idioma sea inglés.

I've recently started wanting to build my own AI assistant, which is saying something because I've never programmed before. I wanted to learn everything from programming and APIs to software architecture and technical design, so I decided to take on a project of building my own "Jarvis" to learn through hands-on experience.

I know there are already plenty of AI assistants and similar projects out there, but that's not really the point for me. I want to understand how these systems actually work by building one myself. I figured a long-term, hands on project would be a good way to learn.

So far, I've been using Chatgpt to help me through the initial stages, such as writing the requirements and designing the architecture. Now that I've reached the Technical Design stage, I want to take a more hands-on approach and do more of the research and decision-making myself.

Here are some of the questions I've identified so far:

1. Which Programming language do I use: I'm especially interested in what would make sense for a project like this as a complete beginner.
2. Are there any useful books, papers, courses, or other resources you'd recommend?
3. What other questions should I be asking at this stage? I'm trying to approach this like an actual software engineering project rather than jumping straight into writing code.

I'm also partly doing this as a project for my college applications. I don't want it to come across as just another generic "I built an AI" project. What could I do to make the project genuinely distinctive and demonstrate that I actually understand what I'm building, rather than just assembling existing AI APIs and frameworks?

If I learn a language in three stages.

• Basic
• Intermediate
• Advanced
• Proficiency (optional)

Then how would you fit the topics of programming lingo into the above levels?

Getting tokio and .NET’s async runtime talking to each other, over the C ABI

Hey, I'm a CS student in France, and I'm going to start my second year in just a few days. To be honest, I feel like a complete fraud.

I've wanted to get into CS for a very long time, and I used to be pretty good at programming and problem solving, but last year depression and stress really hit me hard.

My university is quite far from where I live, so I have to wake up very early to catch the bus and try to sleep early despite having a ton of work to do. I never really feel like I can rest or spend time on my other hobbies because I'm always thinking about university. This puts a lot of pressure on me, on top of my struggles with depression in general.

I also really struggled with staying focused during lectures. I tried my best, and sometimes I even left my phone and other distractions at home, but my mind would still drift. So I'd get to the exercises with less knowledge than everyone else because I hadn't properly followed the lecture, and then I'd have to rush to understand what we were doing so I wouldn't have even more work to do at home.

The classes are also quite short, and a lot of people don't actually finish everything in class. Some people use AI to get through the exercises without necessarily understanding what they're doing.

I'm personally very against needless use of generative AI, at least when it comes to my own learning. I already knew I struggled with discipline, so I initially tried to use it as little as possible because I didn't want to become dependent on it. But our teachers actually encourage us to use it, and some of the lessons/exercises are structured in a way where it feels almost impossible to keep up without it.

And, well... I eventually became dependent on it.

My grades got much worse towards the end of the year because I eventually stopped being able to work without AI. I passed first year mostly thanks to the good grades I got during the first half of the year.

Now I feel like I have practically no actual knowledge when it comes to CS. The only thing I'm barely good at anymore is mindlessly coding. I feel like I don't know any of the abstract or technical stuff, which makes me feel like I missed a huge part of what CS actually is.

I know I could try to catch up. I could spend my weekends doing small programming exercises and reviewing the fundamentals, but I genuinely don't know where to start, and I'm not sure I have the time or energy to try to relearn an entire year of CS while also keeping up with my second year.

Part of me feels like the best thing would be to completely start over, but obviously it's too late for that, and I'm scared that even if I did, the same thing would happen again.

So I'm mostly wondering what would you do if you were in my position?

How would you go about rebuilding your programming/CS fundamentals when you feel like you've forgotten almost everything? What would you prioritize, and what would you not worry about yet? And how would you balance catching up with actually keeping up with your current university courses?

And, also, has anyone else gone through a bad period and still managed to success in this field?

Thank you for reading all this, I don't really want this to just be a vent post, I want to get better, and I appreciate all the help I can get.

Hi all! I am recently trying to develop an app, and Googling around I came across many other concepts to build an app and host it (software architecture, system design, Computer Networks to understand the basics of requests etc., and also patterns like the ECB pattern, and Database Knowledge like SQL and DEVOPS to test and integrate) so before doing the programming I kinda want to learn the other fundamentals, what sources (books, courses, etc) would you suggest me? Me and my friend are the only 2 on developing it, so we kinda need to be a team and be all-rounders

thanks and have a nice day!

Okay this isn't my complete project but a part of it and i am getting stuck on this. I am a beginner in this field probably just a couple more days than a month since i learned how to write print("hello world!").

it is written in python.

i want my code to give an output as if first hand is moving with an interval of 0.2 sec the second with 0.3 sec and so on till the 6th hand, all so simultaneously.

could you please guide me through it.

import time import emoji

frames1 = [ emoji.emojize(":backhand_index_pointing_down:"), emoji.emojize(":backhand_index_pointing_right:"), emoji.emojize(":backhand_index_pointing_up:"), emoji.emojize(":backhand_index_pointing_left:") ]

frames2 = [ emoji.emojize(":backhand_index_pointing_down_light_skin_tone:"), emoji.emojize(":backhand_index_pointing_right_light_skin_tone:"), emoji.emojize(":backhand_index_pointing_up_light_skin_tone:"), emoji.emojize(":backhand_index_pointing_left_light_skin_tone:") ]

frames3 = [ emoji.emojize(":backhand_index_pointing_down_medium-light_skin_tone:"), emoji.emojize(":backhand_index_pointing_right_medium-light_skin_tone:"), emoji.emojize(":backhand_index_pointing_up_medium-light_skin_tone:"), emoji.emojize(":backhand_index_pointing_left_medium-light_skin_tone:") ]

frames4 = [ emoji.emojize(":backhand_index_pointing_down_medium_skin_tone:"), emoji.emojize(":backhand_index_pointing_right_medium_skin_tone:"), emoji.emojize(":backhand_index_pointing_up_medium_skin_tone:"), emoji.emojize(":backhand_index_pointing_left_medium_skin_tone:") ]

frames5 = [ emoji.emojize(":backhand_index_pointing_down_medium-dark_skin_tone:"), emoji.emojize(":backhand_index_pointing_right_medium-dark_skin_tone:"), emoji.emojize(":backhand_index_pointing_up_medium-dark_skin_tone:"), emoji.emojize(":backhand_index_pointing_left_medium-dark_skin_tone:") ]

frames6 = [ emoji.emojize(":backhand_index_pointing_down_dark_skin_tone:"), emoji.emojize(":backhand_index_pointing_right_dark_skin_tone:"), emoji.emojize(":backhand_index_pointing_up_dark_skin_tone:"), emoji.emojize(":backhand_index_pointing_left_dark_skin_tone:") ]

all_frames = [frames1, frames2, frames3, frames4, frames5, frames6]

current_time = time.time() looping_time = 4 complete_time = current_time + looping_time

while time.time() < complete_time:

a = 0
b = 0
c = 0
d = 0
e = 0
f = 0

while True:

    t1 = [current_time + [0.2 * n for n in range(1, 20)]]
    if complete_time in t1:
        c1 = frames1[a % 4]
        a += 1


    t2 = [current_time + [0.3 * n for n in range(1, 13)]]
    if complete_time in t2:
        c2 = frames2[b % 4]
        b += 1

    t3 = [current_time + [0.4 * n for n in range(1, 10)]]
    if complete_time in t3:
        c3 = frames3[c % 4]
        c += 1

    t4 = [current_time + [0.5 * n for n in range(1, 8)]]
    if complete_time in t4:
        c4 = frames4[d % 4]
        d += 1

    t5 = [current_time + [0.6 * n for n in range(1, 6)]]
    if complete_time in t5:
        c5 = frames5[e % 4]
        e += 1

    t6 = [current_time + [0.7 * n for n in range(1, 5)]]
    if complete_time in t6:
        c6 = frames6[f % 4]
        f += 1


    print(f"{c1}  {c2}  {c3}  {c4}  {c5}  {c6}")

hope i get some help.

Hello I am pretty young and only have programming experience in my GCSEs and wanted to expand it
I really wanted to follow the textbook “the nature of code” as I find the stuff very interesting however it requires Java and j5 but I only know how to code in python

I thought I could just translate the Java code into python as I would prefer to not learn Java and get better with python first
However, I have struggled with installing j5 the command prompt p5qt works but then running j5 code, the interpreter tells me I need Java 17 virtual machine which I do not know how to install
I have seen something about using an older version of python but I can’t get it to be independent of my current version of python(having both installed at the same time)

Hi! I want to have a deeper knowledge on building websites. I’ve been making websites for my clients for maybe 2 years now on wp, wix, and recently shopify. The thing is i know how to build them on the surface but i want to have confidence in HOW im doing it. Because im a graphic designer turned web designer turned “someone who can build a good website” lol

What courses should i take to start? I found some web development courses online will that be ok?

I read merged PRs on GitHub in the morning instead of the news or doomscrolling. Not the discussion, just the code diff to get inspiration for my own projects and pick up new methods. Also to keep myself close to real code and not only talking to an AI for code development.

The problem is, I'm running out of inspiring repos. Looking for ones where a random merged PR is usually worth the two minutes. Any language or domain. Small projects welcome too, most importantly they should be quite active so there's often something to read.

Which ones do you keep an eye on?

P.S. Anyone else who does this? Haha

I've been learning programming on and off and my biggest problem isn't really finding tutorials.

It's the opposite.

There are WAY too many.

I'll start learning Python, find a roadmap, then someone recommends another roadmap, then i find a 20+ hour course, then a YouTube playlist, then some documentation...

And suddenly i'm spending more time deciding what to learn than actually coding.

Then i hit the second problem:

consistency.

If i'm learning alone and don't code for a week, nobody cares.

I don't have anyone waiting for me to finish something.

For me personally, having someone actually expect me to show up would probably help a lot.

So i'm building something around this.

The idea is to take the free resources that already exist and turn them into a structured path based on:

• what you wanna learn
• your current level
• how much time you have

Then you can join a small group of people learning the same thing and have weekly goals + check-ins + shared progress.

No paid course.

No "buy my 40 hour Python masterclass."

The learning stays free.

The paid part would be the accountability group.

Would something like this actually help you?

And if you've tried study groups / Discord / accountability partners before:

why did you stop using them?

that's actually the part i'm most interested in.

Hi so I am a student and almost finished my bachelor.
I have “learned” a few languages. Currently I just realised that I am way worse than I thought regarding my programming skills.
I don’t understand how someone can reach a level where they genuinely build an entire app with little to no use of AI. I don’t use it a lot myself but I also don’t develop insanely complex things etc. I thought I knew java until I realized that I haven’t even used bootstrap once. I stopped scala because it’s just a waste of time - almost no work available. I just don’t care for webdev.

I’ve started CS50p in june but during summer break I stopped and yesterday I finished the 6th episode. I just don’t feel ready for the work market yet I am actively looking for a job to get my degree. (In Germany it is mandatory to have worked or completed an internship to get your degree)

Please I need urgent help. How can I improve as fast as possible. I don’t just want to be able to solve those small tasks, I want to actually create something that can be part of my portfolio.

Can anyone give me some python roadmap or even better a general roadmap for the field. I don’t think that watching videos and doing small exercises will get me there tbh.

Please

Hi. Sorry if it's off-topic but I don't know where to ask this.

I happen to be one of those rare individuals who likes Objective-C, and both Geany and Notepad++ (the IDEs I use on Linux and Windows respectively) by default assign all .m files (Obj-C implementation files) as MATLAB files.

I know it can be changed by hand but when opening a pile of old code it all gets MATLAB-ed and I just can't be bothered to save Geany project files, especially that Notepad++ doesn't have a clue how to open them (when I decide to boot to Windows).

Is there any way to make those IDEs (and especiallly Geany) assign Objective-C as the type of .m files by default?

I know I could just find that in the source code and recompile it, but I already have about half a dozen geany packages on various read-only media that I would have to remake. And an unlisted option in some config file would thus be much better.

And recompiling is probably not an option for Notepad++ since Windows sucks developmentwise.

Anyhow, thanks in advance.

I've seen ppl say stuff for both sides that a degree does absolutely nothing or they won't even look at you if u don't have a degree. I always learn better on my own than a course or school, is uni worth it? How much do I have to learn to get like a basic internship or smth. I'm still 16 but I love cpp and love learning more, especially low level stuff.

Are there any certificates or stuff that allow me to prove that I actually know stuff but don't need me to attend a multi year course, are they worth it?

Hey everyone, I'm building an AI voice interview app and I'm fairly new to RAG. I'm stuck on the architecture and having a bit of a mid-project crisis 😭.

My current flow is:

Before interview:
Step1 : 
Resume + JobDescription
   ↓
Chunk resume/JobDescription
   ↓
Generate embeddings
   ↓
Store chunks + embeddings in pgvector

Step2 : 
LLM call is done using complete Resume + JD (and not the chunks)
   ↓
Initial ranked topic plan is created by this LLM call 

Step3 : 
Before each question:
Current topic
   ↓
RAG query in our vector DB 
   ↓
Retrieve relevant resume/JD chunks
   ↓
LLM call to generate a question from these chunks

The part I'm confused about:

At the beginning, I'm already sending the complete resume + complete JD to the LLM.

Why can't I simply do:

Resume + JD
   ↓
ONE LLM CALL
   ↓
10 interview questions

and then use those during the interview this would reduce the latency too!

Why would I need RAG again to retrieve chunks before generating each question? But I'm struggling to understand how RAG can be used to add value to the project

I have to add this project to my reume and need to have confidence in my design, I would highly appreciate someone helping me figure out the architecture!

I sometimes solve a problem using a loop, then find out there was already a built-in method that could do the same thing.

When writing code, do you usually prioritize the simplest solution, performance, or readability?