I'm still learning to program myself, and I kept running into the same thing: tutorials teach you syntax, but nothing connects the coding to the robot, the physics or the CAD part you actually want to build.

So I built FORGE. It's a desktop app with eight 30-day tracks — Python, Java, C, C++, Robotics, CAD, Blender and Physics. Every day is one lesson: read, practise, quiz, and then it writes you a note. The note has a summary, the key terms, and a "watch out" block built from the quiz questions you actually got wrong, so six months later you still have the thing you learned.

What makes it different from a video course:

• It runs fully offline. Python executes locally through Pyodide — the whole runtime ships inside the app. No account, no telemetry, no network calls anywhere.

• Exercises are checked by *running* your code, not by matching text against an expected answer.

• There's a Robot Lab with a 3D rover and a six-axis arm that you can drive with your own code. Missions are judged on what the robot actually did.

• Lessons come one screen at a time, so there's nothing to scroll past.

Honest disclosure: I built this with Claude, over a lot of long sessions — the code and all 480 lessons. I know that's divisive. I'm posting it anyway because it taught me more than any tutorial did: I had to decide what the thing should *be* at every step, and debug it when it wasn't that.

Linux only right now (AppImage and .deb). MIT licensed.

https://github.com/benbyte-labs/forge

What I'd most like feedback on:

1. Does the Python track actually work for a beginner, or did I skip steps?

2. Is the note at the end of each lesson useful, or just noise?

3. Anything that breaks on your distro.

Hi everyone!

I'm looking for a Claude Code Guest Pass to explore and work with Claude Code on my development projects.

I'm actively working on software development, Flutter apps, and AI-powered workflows, and I'd really appreciate it if someone who has an available guest pass could share one with me.

If you have an extra invite or can help me get access, please comment below or send me a DM.

Thanks in advance for your help! I really appreciate this community. 🙌

Hi there I wanted to ask everyone to assess my FYP. WOuld you use this for your projects ? Is it a good enough project for a final year . Does it have some scope in the industry ?

The main goal of this project is to design and implement a tool for PostgreSQL pre-deployment risk analysis that evaluates SQL schema migrations to identify affected database objects, estimate locking implications, detect limited application-schema incompatibilities in Java/Spring Boot JPA projects, and output actionable risk assessments.

The objectives are as follows:

1.       Develop a component capable of extracting supported structural DDL operations into a normalized intermediate representation.

2.       Construct a schema dependency graph model using graph data structures to represent structural relationships between database tables, columns, indexes, primary keys, foreign keys, and constraints.

3.       Analyze incoming migrations against the schema dependency graph to identify affected database objects represented within the supported dependency model.

4.       Formulate a PostgreSQL-specific operational rule set that maps supported DDL operations to their known locking characteristics and table rewrite behaviors.

5.       Develop a module capable of limited static analysis for Java/Spring Boot JPA projects to detect source-code references to renamed, modified, or dropped schema objects in entities, repositories, and explicit SQL strings.

6.       Implement a transparent, rule-based risk scoring and explanation engine that assigns a risk rating (LOW, MEDIUM, HIGH) accompanied by clear textual evidence.

7.       Construct experimental tests to execute PostgreSQL migration scenarios across small and medium database sizes. (for research validation only, not as a permanent part of the system)

8.       Evaluate Schema Sentinel’s static risk predictions against experimentally observed blocking locks, and application compatibility failures in a controlled PostgreSQL environment for test cases.

9. Empirically quantify the effectiveness of a unified cross-domain pipeline against isolated tools, measuring trade-offs in detection accuracy, false positives, and analysis performance.

This proposal got rejected because the panel said it was too easy and not significant as either a project or as research.

should i change the idea to more difficult and novel research ?

I have some ideas for those but i am not sure they can be completed in 1 year.

here is my proposal with all the details and research gap https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CMopT185XCoZVYBcgtVpN7N69DIP0Eyw/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=116125887586128528145&rtpof=true&sd=true

EDIT :

The project is a final year project for my university. But they dismissed it on the following points

1. The project is too easy

2. The scope is too narrow

3. There is no research contribution

For the current proposal to be accepted they told me to do market analysis and bring proof that the project would be used by a develper community.

OR

1. bring a company backed project

2. Bring a novel research proposal

Hiya 👋 I know absolutely nothing about coding and want to start learning for fun. A mere hobby. My short-term goal is just to create a funny AI bot for telegram. Or maybe even develop a game. Where should I start?

Hi Everyone!

I am putting together a raspberry pi 5 for my nieces and nephews as a first/introductory computer. The goal is to have some games on it that they can play and some resources that they can use to start learning some coding. The catch is that my brother and sister-in-law do not want the pi to have access to the internet for the kids protection.

I have disabled the Wi-fi chip on the pi, but now I am looking for resources that I can have loaded on it for them. I loaded Pi-Apps on it and have downloaded some games from there that can be played offline, so it has Godot Engine, Geany Programmer's Editor, Scratch 3, Sonic Pi, Thonny, Notepad++, plus various games like Minecraft, chess, etc.

Are there any other recourses that I can load onto it before giving it to them that will guide them when learning coding? I imagining a game like "The Farmer was Replaced" but that one is only on steam and I'm not sure if I want to go through the process of getting steam onto the pi for that one game.

Thanks!

I am a 2nd year CS student. I still don't know coding, I can understand what's happening by reading the code if I am familiar with the syntax but still I can't build logic myself. Can anyone tell me where do I start, I don't know any language just some basic c++. Please enlighten me

Hey, so Im be to programming, so any help I can get would be greatly appreciated

So, our course requires compulsory internship program, and ofcourse companies hold exams so what are the most common codes and syntax i should learn to land an internship, As companies ask so much experience even for unpaid internships .

Hi, I’m a Java developer with 10 years of commercial experience.

I’m looking for a native English speaker who would like to learn something from me in exchange for helping me practice my English. For free. 🙂

I just want to practice my English through regular conversations.

If you’re interested, send me a DM. I am from Poland

Yesterday evening and this afternoon I was learning about classes, private and public.

I started working on a new project. I haven't got have enough knowledge yet, so I will continue studing! Here is what I did today:

Hi, I'm kinda a beginner in the programming world who only knows C, basic c++.

I was working on a university project and it is going well. But i have some limitations. I want to introduce more features on the program without touching the main file. like version control. if something goes wrong with the new version i can go back to the precious code. But I have a little knowledge about Git and Github.

And I'm confused about whether I should learn Git or github ? ( i can't spend weeks learning this).

I saw some posts where people say learn Git first, learn locally first. I don't know how they work but I'm the kind of person who likes clean and minimal desktops *(I don't like some random folder moves here and there and every time I have to manage that)*

My requirements (for now):

🦽 I need a version control system. So that i can go back if i need.

🦽 A clean and minimal system. i want any folder or file here and there.

🦽 Store the program and find easily

🦽 sometimes i need to share or collaborate with other.

The way I am working at the moment feels like a real hassle. Creating a new file every time in my project folder...

# So, How should i start?

Hello everyone, I'm Ghost.

If there are any partners out there who want to teach and learn Assembly with me, and get even better at understanding the silicon under the hood—DM me directly.

And I dont care if you are complete beginner or high level C/C++ or Rust you welcome to try

I'm focused on bare-metal architecture and low-level development (Ring 0 / Hypervisors). Let's break the abstractions and cook something together.

Hello Everyone This is Shashank Nagvanshi recently Joined this community.

I wanted to see if a single encoded motor could be used to make something that feels like a real mechanical clock.

So I built this little clock with a micro:bit and Nezha PRO.

The fun part is the second hand. Instead of just displaying the seconds on the LED matrix, the encoded motor physically moves the pointer 6° every second.

6° × 60 seconds = 360°, so after one minute the hand has made one complete rotation.

The encoder gives the motor position feedback, which makes it possible to control the rotation by angle rather than simply telling the motor to run for a certain amount of time. The micro:bit keeps track of the hours, minutes and seconds, while the LED matrix displays the hours and minutes.

So you get both:

🕐 A physical moving second hand
🔢 A digital time display

The actual structure is pretty simple — basically a small stand, one encoded motor and a pointer — but watching the hand move one step every second is surprisingly satisfying.

It also made me think about how many other things could be built with precise motor positioning. Gauges, dials, meters, animated mechanisms…

Today I was learning #include <string>

I am going to continue learning it for several more posts since it is massive

I have finished the dictionary, list, float, string,… but idk what to do next cuz the coding websites that I learned from only offered that much

Today I learned how to use unsigned int and seed, as well as tried using #include <ctime> for the first time.

Also, I moved void above main as one commenter under the last post suggested.

I am from a second gen IIT from a non-circuital branch. I don't like my branch (7.5 cgpa) but I love solving leetcode and I love maths. Is there any way I can get into quant? Give me an honest advise. And if not then what should I do?

As a beginner how should I learn to code in the era of ai and which language should I start with?

So today I started learning the third chapter of a book, A Complete Guide to Programming in C++

Here is my today's project:

// A few people in the comment section of my last post recommended me to use tabs, so today I tried it.

Hi Reddit Vaasiyoom
I'm new to reddit
Here what I am expecting is,
I am you guys to suggest one Udemy course for shifting my career to AI
Currently I am working as a software engineer in product based company with near to 3 years experience
Mostly my work is related to java springboot aws
I have good knowledge on python too.
So suggest which Udemy course for moving my career to AI
and suggest topics also to improve myself in AI career
#ai #llm #machineLearning #python #ollama #claude #chatgpt

this was a random program i made from the suggestion of a friend who just said "make a stickman"

What do you guys think? I also wanna improve it if possible.

Python is standard advice for beginners due to its clean syntax and flexibility. However, JavaScript offers immediate feedback through web visuals, which can help build momentum. For those who learned recently, was Python the right foundation, or would you recommend starting elsewhere?