Thread 106591303

have you ever wanted to program but don't know what to do, don't have a single idea for something interesting to do?

>> do something that solves problems you have.
I don't have any problems that can be solved with a program
>> make one up and solve it.
I can't possibly do and finish something that has no real use.

how do I cope with this?

>>106591303 (OP)
Program a video game. They don't solve any problem but are used by retards regardless.

>>106591303 (OP)
do something else. also this >>106591618.

>>106591303 (OP)
same

>>106591618
yep. filled out alot of those
fuck all this performative shit people do to get into better jobs. i honestly dont care. we will all be jobless soon anyway.

>>106591303 (OP)
if you are new, learn the basics first, dont try and do something complex starting out.
languages take awhile to learn, think of spoken languages and how hard they can be to learn and master.
as previous anon said, game programming is good to start with but keep it simple like a multiple choice type text game.
you dont have to solve problems (you will solve programming problems), just try and have fun.

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+ King Terry The Terrible +
+ start game? +
+ yes / no +
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>>106591643
be nice if 4chan did ascii formatting :\

>>106591649
lets see
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+ King Terry The Terrible +
+ start game? +
+ yes / no +
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>>106591643
i got started programming in qbasic. but when i tried to learn OOP i got filtered. there so much syntax and shit, it wasnt immediately obvious how to program what i wanted the game to do, and i got bogged down in details. eventually i got bored and gave up.

>>106591303 (OP)
Im going outside and touch the grass but usually want to map out properly my areas and i don't want it to be online so i made my own map toolset. Does it have any use-case for everybody else ? No not really do i use it ? Yup.

>>106591661
might help if i use vim?
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+ King Terry The Terrible +
+ start game? +
+ yes / no +
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>>106591303 (OP)
If you really want to make something ""useful"":

Try to go about your normal day, noticing what small things bother you while interacting with your computer.

For example, I really like downloading videos with YT-DLP. But I don't like how I have to copypaste the URL from the browser into my terminal. I know there are existing tools, but I felt like it so I made a browser extension where I only have to click one button and whatever youtube video I'm looking at gets downloaded and converted to MP3 in a set directory. I didn't publish it on github or anything, it just makes my life better.

Shit like this. If you are still new to programming/computers, this may not come to you automatically. For me, I cannot really use a system without seeing many different ways to improve it. At this point, my project list would probably take multiple lifetimes to complete.

If you stick to it long enough, your problem will shift from "I have no interesting projects to do" to "which of these projects do I want to do the most?"

>>106591303 (OP)
Yes, I've got the same thing. Just reprogram something else that somebody has already made.

>>106591303 (OP)
>I don't have any problems that can be solved with a program
You probably do but haven't come across it yet or thought about it recently. Think about typical tasks/workflows you do on your OS of choice, start there. You can make a command line or GUI utility.

Make a web browser that isn't gay nigger shit

>>106593762
https://www.stoutner.com/

>>106596335
>Qt
C++ shit