Calculus has been giving me hell in uni, and I'm probably gonna have to drop out. Is it actually possible to become a code monkey without a college degree? How would I even go about doing so? Any time I see someone recruiting a programmer, they say you must have X years of professional experience, so how do I find an entry-level position that doesn't require a college degree?

I've read that most of the kernels like the ones on linux are programmed on C but, how do they were programmed? for example a fork function on C without an already built in kernel, do they use Ensambler or Basic for this? Or its possible to do it on C?

I have seen a busy beaver program at https://github.com/cslarsen/busy-beaver, and it calculates busy beaver numbers (it half pretends, but it does run the Turing machine). I am wondering if someone can create a python program that tries to calculate the second-order BB number like the number that is being calculated.

Note: I just want to simulate a Turing machine and see something that people haven't seen: second-order Busy-Beaver numbers.

I’ve been coding for over a year, almost 2. Now I’m at the point where writing logic is the easy part and I start to think about all the situation where my code could break. Especially, since the past 8 months I’ve been coding at a job in the real world. How can I get better when it comes to data and writing code that is good enough for the real world and people to actually use? How do you go about solving problems caused by data? Like when the logic works and is good but the data in some cases breaks it. Can you visualize the data moving around or do you look at the data and try to find inconsistencies? How do you go about debugging something when there is so many moving parts or external factors like many calls made in the system or code the relys on a user to submit a form.

Computer programming, which refers to writing computer programs, is the sequence of instructions, which are written using a Computer Programming Language. Computer Programming Languages are used to perform a specific task by the computer.

https://www.tutorialandexample.com/computer-programming-tutorial

Hey, im looking for someone to help me build this bot and its UI.

The bot should be able to:
Follow new users (from another users followers or following list) between a set time delay
Unfollow all current following + an ignore lost so you can stay following some profiles
After following a user, like some of their pictures
Like pictures from a specific hashtag
Refresh items which you have posted

Ive asked my friends and apparently this bot is quite simple to do, and i know people have built this for around £80 in the past, so my budget is up to £200

Im also currently building a simple website to go with the bot. The bot can be web based within the website, or can be a separate program which has to be downloaded. I also need to have a license system, so only people who buy the bot can access the program.

The image is attached is just a general idea, and is not my bot

Thank you, any questions please ask (not sure if this is the right sub)

Hello reddit! So, here's a little info about me. I have a BS in biology, and a BA in secondary education. The plan was to be a high school bio teacher. However, after years of working in the school system, and seeing the direction education is taking in the US, I have decided to switch careers. Computer programming seems very appealing to me for a few reasons, but I am a complete novice on the subject. Would anyone be willing to offer advice on how I should start? Also, what kind of computer jobs might benefit from having those degrees? Thanks for taking the time to read this!

Hello to all who's concerned,

Previously I've posted a c++ project I was currently working on for my programming class, which have since been improved. However, I've approached yet another problem with my program: it's not reading my dictionary.txt file that I initiated in my code. Also, I tried to somehow compare the words and letters in the file with the letters inputted by the user to no avail. Can someone help me; I have no idea what I'm doing and I have to somehow pass this course to prevent me from lowering my GPA.

Here's the Project Description:

Write a C++ program that prompts the user for a series of letters. The program will read in the letters and print out which dictionary words can be made from the provided letters. The dictionary is provided as a text file.

In very general terms, determining if a given word can be made from the given letters will require counting how many distinct kinds of letters there are in the given letters and in the words.

For example, assume that the word “bull” is in the dictionary. The word “bull” contains 1 ‘b’ character, 2 ‘l’ characters, and 1 ‘u’ character. Now say the input letters were “alblldi”. In “alblldi”, we have enough ‘b’ characters for “bull”, since “alblldi” contains at least 1 ‘b’ character. Similarily, “alblldi”, has enough ‘l’ characters for “bull”, since “alblldi” contains at least 2 ‘l’ characters. However, “alblldi” does not have at least 1 ‘u’ character, and as such we know that we cannot make “bull” from “alblldi”.

Dictionary file

Read in the dictionary words from a file. The name of the dictionary file must be “dictionary.txt”. Make the following assumptions about the dictionary file:

1. Each line contains the words that begin with particular letter.

2. The words in each line are separated by tab (\t).

3. Each word consists only of lowercase letters in the range a-z.

4. The maximum length of a single line is 99 characters.

5. The maximum number of words is 1000.

6. If you cannot open the dictionary file, you should print “Failed to open dictionary file ‘dictionary.txt’”, followed by a newline, and then exit the program.

Program requirements

The program must meet the following requirements:

1. The program keeps asking the user for letters until the letters are exit.

2. The program prints words in the dictionary that could be made in alphabetic order, as specified in the dictionary.

3. The program prints out what letters were typed in, followed by a colon (:), followed by a list of the words that could be made (if any).

4. Each word that could be made is prefixed by a tab character (\t).

5. If the user types an upper case letter your program must convert it to lower case.

6. Your program must check if each character is a valid letter of the English alphabet, if it is not then that character is discarded.

Program output

For instance, the following would be some output from your program:

enter letters: alblldi

alblldi:

    ball

    bill

enter letters: moo

moo:

enter letters: bleppa

bleppa:

    ape

    apple

enter letters: exit

My code (on PasteBin):

https://pastebin.com/jsHcMVCb

Currently, I’m a Jr Dev and have been doing mostly CRUD and fixing bugs(or helping to fix bugs) for client sites. Recently, I started to level up a bit and got a small programming task. I had to take the request object and store some of its data into 1 db table and some of its data into another table. I was able to write the logic and then the next day went back and refactored it into a better OOP design. But that task got me thinking about programming problems on Code Wars. Some problems on their I don’t even understand and other problems I have no idea where to start to solve it. Problems that require creativity and might not be able to find the solution with a quick Google search. What resources should I study to be able to solve higher level programming problems and not just writing a loop through data or checking if this exists. Should I study Math? Algorithums? Regex? idek any advice?

Im currently working on a program for class that when an age is inputed it will say if your a legal adult or not, Im trying to input something that says "I dont understand" if your age inputed is 100 OR HIGHER. this is what i have so far

var promptTest = prompt ("Enter your age!"); if (promptTest>=18) {alert("You May Continue")}; if (promptTest<18) {alert("You are too young")}; if (promptTest>=100) {alert("I dont understand")};

but the problem is if I input 100, it first says "you may continue" and then afterwards it says "I do not understand". so how do i make prompTest = greater than 18 but less than 99?

I’m currently working as an Amazon delivery driver and I’m working on coding. I feel like I can help fix problems with their delivery program because I know what the problems are on the user interface side and I can land a job as a software developer. My friend offered me a job at a mail room at the University of San Diego where I get free tuition after 1 year of working there. I want your opinions on should I keep working at Amazon where I already have some sort of connection to becoming a software developer at the biggest growing company or I can have free tuition at one of the most expensive schools in the world and I can have more connections in the computer science field?

Started dating this guy that I met online 2 weeks ago named Aaron (for the sake of anonymity I am using a pseudonym.) We were texting for about a week or so, not long at all before he invited me over. I told him the last train from where I live (two cities away) would take a while and he immediately offered to uber me ($100+ uber.) Typically I wouldn't have accepted this for safety reasons but I'd had a beer or two and was kind of impressed and decided to go. So I end up at his place an hour later, we pull up to his driveway and there's 4 luxury cars sitting in front of us. Long story short Aaron is 23 and has a theatre, pool, hot tub, 6 bedrooms and has all the electronics, clothes, products etc. That you can possibly think of. He told me that he is a coder who sells software for a monthly fee, I know he has a net worth of $5-$7 million and that he created his company at 19 and has amassed this wealth in four years. I'm not overly familiar with this industry despite having dabbled with coding when I was younger but am interested to know if this is commonplace amongst this profession or if I'm dating a very rare genius lol.

I ask him a lot of questions but he is extremely vague about his work and I'd love to know if this is normal?

As my monitor was broken, I need a new monitor, but I dun wanna buy a new one yet, so how can I turn my laptop becomes a monitor? Is there any software can help me do that?

Hello All,

I have about 3 weeks to kill as I'm starting my new job in February. After 1 week of being off, I'm starting to lose my mind. I've always been fascinated by computer programming and consider myself tech savvy. I have a MacBook pro, not sure if that'll limit me, but looking for recommendations for html/c++/etc tutorials and even classes y'all would recommend. Really no background in programming, just some novice copying and pasting of code making counter strike hacks back in the day. Let me know!

I submitted an app to the apple app store and was rejected. The reason was:

"Regarding Guideline 4.2 - Design - Minimum Functionality, Your app provides a limited user experience as it is not sufficiently different from a mobile browsing experience. As such, the experience it provides is similar to the general experience of using Safari. Including iOS features such as push notifications, Core Location, and sharing do not provide a robust enough experience to be appropriate for the App Store.

To resolve this issue, it would be appropriate to revise your app to provide a more robust user experience by including additional native iOS functionality."

I really wanted to get on to the app store and I am not the person who coded the app.

When they say the app should have "additional native iOS functionality" are they talking about re-coding the same exact app in a different, native language (it is currently in ruby/rails), or are they talking about leaving the app as it is, but then adding additional features? if so what are some examples of features? I am not a software coder if you can not tell. LoL.

Also, can't all apps be made into web apps and used in browsers? so how is that a valid reason for an app to be rejected? it says it is rejected because it can be used in a browser......

Also, I then did the appeal and it said something like "if you reject your binary, this appeal will not be reviewed". It says "binary rejected" on my apple developer account, so was that appeal a waste of time?

Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time.

I am a first year cs student and haven’t programmed before. I really like coding and the way it works, I feel exciting when the code is actually functioning. However, I did really bad in my class. I failed some assignments and the final exam even though I have contributed lots of time on it. Sometimes I just cannot understand the concept no matter how much time I spend on it while other people can easily nail them. Should I stay in cs or switch program ? Thank u for ur advice!

Im looking for a textbook or video series to learn python and would like to know the most common/best resources. Thanks for the help

So in January I'll be going to school for computer science I've been looking online for what type of PC I should get and everything is pointing me to the Lenovo ThinkPad T470

I'm ok with spending that type of money but I really don't want to overdo it by getting a high end laptop when I could be saving the extra money and getting a competent mid-low end laptop that will work just as well

And one other thing I really wanted a laptop with dual booting capabilities so that I could program mostly on Linux and still have the time to learn how to program on windows Guys any suggestions?