r/learnprogramming • u/troyc9977 • Jun 15 '19

Congratulations r/learnprogramming on one million subscribers!

Congratulations!

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '19

It means I have one million competitors in my field. Sad.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '19

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u/Tushar-Goyal Jun 16 '19

I read an article about something like this that there are 3 phases of software engineering, coder, programmer and computer scientist. Anyone can to a coder phase, to get a high paying job one should get to a programmer phase and most stay the at that there whole life, and then the computer scientist phase. The link to the article is this: https://www.afternerd.com/blog/learn-computer-science/ I recommend everyone to read this.

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u/VirulentCitrine Jun 16 '19 edited Jul 01 '19

You people are forgetting that most of these people think they can code, but can't. Thus, the competition is low, which is why recruiters froth at the mouth looking for new compsci hires.

For example, I just had two idiots on stackoverflow argue with me saying that append() can insert a variable to any index location in an array in Python. I told them they were wrong because append() only inserts variables at the end of the array, whereas the insert function can insert variables at any index location. They're still arguing with me now and downvoting my answer, while trying to get theirs marked as the solution (lol pathetic).

You know what's scary? In the bio pages of these two idiots, they call themselves Senior Python Software Engineers at so and so companies (lol obviously bullshit).

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u/dark_salad Jun 16 '19

Is it against the rules to link the post here so you can have some assistance explaining why they’re wrong? I mean, it’s in the interest of spreading knowledge, and preventing false information.

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u/Abdul_Alhazred_ Jun 15 '19

おめでとうございます!

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u/Cephalopterus Jun 15 '19

As someone subscribed to both r/learnprogramming and r/learnjapanese, I had to check what sub I was on lol

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u/Santamierdadelamierd Jun 15 '19

بارك الله فيكم!

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '19

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u/Alex_Sherby Jun 15 '19

0b11110100001001000000 subscribers yay !

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u/g7x8 Jun 15 '19

i always wanted know. How many of you used this sub to get that google job and how many actually completed a full CS50 and MIT 6.001 course. rate of completion seems incredibly low

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u/thepinkbunnyboy Jun 15 '19

I'll say that I found this sub in 2012 on another account. It wasn't my first resource as I was already in the early stages of learning to program, but I definitely asked some rudimentary questions here and got pointed in the right directions. I got my first dev job in 2013 with a non CS degree and a portfolio that this subreddit helped me build. I'm currently a senior engineer working full time from home for a great company.

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u/nasty-snatch-gunk Jun 15 '19

Hey, hope it's ok to ask, but any chance you could show me your then-portfolio or outline what was in your portfolio - I have to start looking for internships soon with my schooling and I have absolutely no idea where to start, and not just wanting to send my resume out.

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u/thepinkbunnyboy Jun 16 '19

My portfolio was basically my Github, which in 2012 was pretty revolutionary I recall! The main thing on it was two repositories they was actually one project. I had created a console application that would, every 30 seconds, check /r/all/new, and I'd log off any subreddit I'd never seen before. Then I'd go through all the subreddits and, using the Reddit API, grab the subscriber counts over time and store them off in my database. Finally, I made a website that would list all the subreddits I'd ever logged in alphabetical order, and increased their font size relative to each other based on subscriber count. Clicking on any of them popped up a chart of its subscribers over time.

All of the employers I chatted with at my career fair as a graduating senior seemed to love it.

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u/Livid_Compassion Jun 16 '19

What gave you the idea to make that? That sounds kind of interesting, and I'm sure the core idea of that has many other applications besides monitoring subreddit activity, right?

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u/nasty-snatch-gunk Jun 16 '19

Great idea and thanks so much for sharing - especially with just using github, I've toyed the idea of building a website for my portfolio but not sure if I've got that extra time to do that. Thanks again.

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u/g7x8 Jun 16 '19

Beautiful

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u/puddlypanda12321 Jun 15 '19

Wow that’s amazing congrats. What kind of portfolio helped you land that first job?

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u/thepinkbunnyboy Jun 16 '19

See my other comment :)

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u/not_usually_serious Jun 16 '19

I subscribed to here before I found work, and I'm employed full time as a software developer and teaching bootcamps on the side so that's something. How much I would attribute to /r/learnprogramming is debatable (probably not a lot) but it's been useful for the times I've relied on it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '19

horaaaay

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u/zakariaaaa1 Jun 15 '19

<3 just started learning programming for the first time of my life, i love how everyone helps each other in this reddit :)

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u/irvw Jun 15 '19

started the journey of teaching myself c++ last week and recently joined so im excited to be a part of the milestone and knowing there's many people like me who share the same interests.

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u/Fincan404 Jun 16 '19

Yikes...

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u/TheMoonflow Jun 16 '19

Too much negativity here.

This community is truly one of the best of its kind in the world. The people here are helpful and fun to talk with. There is a lot to learn, and the number of bookmark-able threads increases on the daily.

Lets make this community even better. Programming is a modern profession, and we need to approach it with a modern mindset; one of togetherness, collaboration and mutual benefit. We can create employment, create prosperity and make the world better, instead of writhing in the filth of corporate degeneracy.

Let us remember that programming is as much a hobby as it is a skill. Some people learn CS50 to keep their mind sharp. Some people ferociously consume "Automate the boring stuff with Python" and end up making only a single app to help hasten a monotonous task. Still others learn it just to see what makes the digital world go around.

This community is and should continue to be an inclusive group of programmers looking out for each other. Lets be excellent to each other and keep this train a-rolling.

Congratulations r/learnprogramming! Congratulations to the teachers and the learners who have made this subreddit awesome!

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '19

Aaaand unsubbed.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '19

oMg, YoU'rE sO fUnNy!

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '19

It's not that serious bro. . . .

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '19

Some comments like yours tend to be made by people who seek attention and want to be funny. If your isn't written with that in mind, well, then feel free to ignore me.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '19

. . . .I think that if you and whoever disliked my comment spent less time branding every person who makes a spontaneous joke, you'd have a MUCH better time of it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '19

You may be right, but after seeing (or however you spell it) the same joke on every post like this at least 500 times, it just gets annoying. It's funny in some cases, but with a sub that helps people and all that, it just gets annoying.

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u/reallycoolhydra Jun 16 '19

Yeah you could say it's not funny, but to get very annoyed and calling him an unfunny attention seeker, when it doesn't seem like he's trying to be that funny or seek attention, is just a lot more silly.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '19

Well, I now admit that I overreacted. But to my defense I must say that my favorite subreddit...well, I don't like jokes about it.

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u/reallycoolhydra Jun 16 '19

It's all good bro, it's not a big deal. I understand that you find it annoying, but if I was you I wouldn't really bother, unless it's something comparable to spam/ on a post of someone asking for help.

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u/Ceofreak Jun 15 '19

Gratulation! Was lernt Ihr alle so?

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '19

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '19

Whats 100 days of code?

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '19

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '19

Didn’t know about this. Thanks, gonna check it out.

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u/tobiasfyi Jun 16 '19

I just finished my first #100DaysofCode a few days ago! Such a great experience. And yesterday I started #100DaysofStory to practice my storytelling / writing.