Thread 106186452

>join a coding course
>they give a project to make as an assignment
>you can't learn how to do it just by reading their reference materials or listening to the lectures
>they just tell you to google shit you don't know
Every time. How come nobody teaches how to actually code?

>>106186452 (OP)
>learning to code in 2025 when AI can do it for you.
Lmao

>>106186452 (OP)
nigga just code why would you need a course lmao

>>106186460
I've been attending courses like this for years, even before AI. But all I ended up learning was a manual version of vibe coding.

>>106186483
Kek, well I think you should try other things. Coding is being replaced by ai and you won't get a job. Even If you don't want a job you'd better learn to vibe code or learn a trade

Ignore the AI faggot, but what you describe is how coding actually works in reality: if you want to do something you Google how to do it and you work from there. If you don't even know how to do a Hello World, find some "programming basics" website in any language you like and then learn data structures, everything else is just a google search away,

>>106186554
But what ends up happening is that I just google shit and copy paste chunks until it works. I don't see how I'm any better than an AI coder.

>>106186554
Cope programmercuck. Your people are being replaced as we speak. Ai won and you lost.

>>106186506
Keep the basic coding skill and learn how to pull data cable, that software background can be amazing for service tech work

>>106186571
Nah that can be done by a pajeets with h1b. Also, robots are coming for those simple physical jobs. You are fucked too lol.

>>106186567
do you not enjoy programming? I'm okay with copying things here and there, but I personally like the challenge of making my projects work, so maybe that's what's missing for you

>>106186655
I just don't feel like I'm actually programming. I'm just googling shit.

>>106186674
that's a you problem anon, instead of copy pasting everything try to write down the basics by making your own study material. I don't know how else to help you, sorry

>>106186452 (OP)
Find something you want automated or a program you want but cant find anywhere and make it happen. Begin writing it. Iterate on it. As your knowledge grows you can rewrite it to be better, and repeat to learn even more.

>>106186452 (OP)
That's exactly what you're supposed to do, nigger faggot. Just google things.

>you can't learn how to do it just by reading their reference materials or listening to the lectures
Anon, imagine instead of learning to write software, you were learning to paint. Would it make sense for your teacher to show you every stroke of the paintbrush that you need to make in order to create the Mona Lisa? If they did that, suppose they then asked you to paint something else. Would you be able to take all of those techniques from painting the Mona Lisa to painting something made by Bob Ross? Probably not. But suppose instead of teaching you how to make a specific painting, they showed you a set of common techniques that you could use as a toolkit, with broad applications to a wide variety of painting targets. But they then require you to figure out on your own how to turn those into a painting of your own with your own style.

Programming, like painting, has an infinite amount of potential projects that you can use it to. You don't teach someone how to do a specific project. You teach them basic language constructs (i.e. functions, data types, loops/conditionals, etc...) and you teach them some design/architectural patterns and data structures. Maybe some common algorithms. But you, the programmer, have to figure out how to take all of this, along with any documentation on library functions you'll need, and turn it into the project on your own. You have to plan out from the project requirements what the program needs to input, what it needs to output, when various actions need to occur, and so on... and you need to put that into code yourself using the tools you have been provided. No one can or should show you how to do that. You must use your innate creative potential as a human. Get to it, and start painting.

>>106186674
You will google a lot early on. Try to remember design patterns and common algorithms, so you can apply them without needing to look them up. You will still need to google API documentation though.

>>106186460
even worse, it takes quite a long time to master programming beyond the midwit surface level, there's tons of discrete math involved and AI is doing THAT too

>>106186452 (OP)
>>106186483
before googling stuff was possible we used reference manuals.

>>106189252
It's been so long since I saw a real one of these that I almost forgot they exist.

>>106187865
Yes. But this board is full of codetroons so obviously they have to cope somehow.

>>106186452 (OP)
>coding
kek

>>106189252
Truly the dark ages. My 5 year old can code circles around your reference book thanks to AI

>>106186452 (OP)
how does uni even work now for cs? every midwit will use AI, and if you actually put in the effort you wont have that perfect GPA or wont have time to sleep or have some fun. im so happy I graduated in the 00s back when your performance was your own. yea frat people cheated in crappy majors but my program was largely legit.