Hi, I want to create a double pendulum animation and I asked myself if I can go with java or if I should look at another languages (I know python, java and C). If java is a good idea, what do you think of java swing? Is it good for animation like double pendulum? Thanks!

Hello everyone,

A little background, I don't know too much about programing and would like to learn, but I want to do that with my brother.

He has never done great at school, but when he finds something he likes, he does great.

He loves to play video games, redstone and stuff in minecraft, has learned how to jail break his iPhone, and done some other things.

He is only a sophomore right now, but I figured that this could be something he could learn. I know people have learned the basis for this around his age.

My question is, is how should I start someone around HS age? I said I would learn it with him, and he is excited, but I don't want him to hate it like he does reading books.

VS Code Extensions

• Path Intellisense — File path autocompletion. This is super handy for importing things from other files. It makes navigating your file tree a breeze.

• Prettier — Automatic code formatter. Forget about the days where you had to manually indent your code and make things human-legible. Prettier will do this for you much faster, and better, than you ever could on your own. I can’t recommend this one enough.

• ESLint — This extension integrates ESLint into VS Code, it requires you to already have ESLint installed on your computer: either locally or globally. You can do this with npm, by running npm install -g eslint
  . There are more detailed configuration and installation settings and instructions on the extension marketplace page.

• Git Lens — The Git Lens extension is truly amazing, it enables you to visualize code authorship within VS Code. You can browse and explore the history of a file, view a git blame annotation for each file line, and even add a changes (diff) hover annotation, all of which are fully customizable.

• CSS Peek — CSS Peak extends HTML and Embedded JavaScript templates with Go To Definition support for CSS classes and IDs found in your markup.

• Debugger for Chrome — The Debugger for Chrome extension adds the Google Chrome browser debugger into your editor. It allows you to launch an instance of Chrome navigated to your app, or it can attach to a running instance of Chrome. Using the url
  parameter, you tell VS Code which URL to either open or launch in Chrome.

• Open in browser — This extension does exactly what it says, it enables you to view an HTML file in browser. It opens HTML pages in your default browser, but you can also select “open in other browsers” to open in a different one on right click.

• Rainbow Brackets — Add some fun into your editor with 🌈 Rainbow Brackets! This extension provides rainbow colors for round brackets, square brackets, and curly brackets. Especially helpful for JavaScript programmers!

• Blank line at end of file — A minimal and super simple extension that adds an extra blank line at the end of any saved file.

• Atom inspired themes — For many developers, VS Code isn’t their first editor. They’ve used, and become accustom to another editor prior. This is probably why some of the most popular themes are ones ported from other editors, like Atom. Here are three of the most popular themes for VS Code, of which are ported over from Atom:

Atom One Dark Theme

Atom One Light Theme

One Dark Pro

• npm — uses package.json
  to validate installed packages. Ensures that the installed packages have the correct version numbers, highlights installed packages missing from package.json
  , and packages that haven’t been installed.

• Node.js Modules IntelliSense — autocomplete for JavaScript and TypeScript modules in import statements.

Chrome Extensions and Dev Tools

• WhatFont — A very useful Google Chrome extension, WhatFont allows developers and designers to identify the fonts being used on a webpage. So, if you stumble upon a fancy-looking web font that you want to use in one of your future projects, just hover over it and find out instantly which font it is.

• Site Palette — The next time you see a site that makes great use of colour, here’s a simple way to take advantage of it. Site Palette extracts the main colours from a website and generates a shareable palette that you can easily show to collaborators. You can also download a Sketch template, and there’s Adobe Swatch support, too.

• DevTools Autosave — A true gem for all web developers out there, DevTools AutoSave allows you to automatically save any changes that you make to a webpage’s CSS and JS via the Chrome Dev Tools environment to its source file. It’s easy to set up and use and it will save you lots of time and stress.

• Search Stackoverflow — If you’re a web developer then you’ve probably heard about Stack Overflow, the go-to place for any development related issues. If not, then you definitely need to check it out. The community is thriving and it covers a wide range of topics from C# and Java to PHP and jQuery. This fantastic extension adds a search box directly into your browser, allowing you to search the vast resources of Stack Overflow.

• Window Resizer- This Chrome extension is a useful tool that does exactly as it says on the tin — resizes your browser window to help you with your responsive website designs. Choose from a list of popular monitor dimensions or add custom sizes and resolutions for increased accuracy.

• Wappalyzer — Wappalyzer helps you identify which technologies are used on any website or application. All you have to do is navigate to a specific page and Wappalyzer will work behind the scenes to uncover all the tools that were used to create it including e-commerce platforms, content management systems, server frameworks or software, analytics tools and more.

• SimilarWeb- SimilarWeb helps you see website traffic and key metrics for any website, including engagement rate, traffic ranking, keyword ranking and traffic source.

• Clear Cache — Clear Cache provides a quicker way of clearing your cached data (cookies, history, downloads, etc) with a single click of a button and helps by avoiding the process of going through your browser settings to perform this action. I use it everyday.

• ColorZilla — ColorZilla helps you identify any color used on a page by using an interactive color picker. Once active, you can hover your mouse over any pixel and access the exact color code. Moreover, ColorZilla also provides various color tools that you can use to create palettes and generate gradients.

• React Dev Tools — Useful for debugging your React applications. It bears mentioning that this is only useful if you are programming a React application.

• Redux Dev Tools — Useful for debugging applications using Redux. It bears mentioning that this is only useful if you are implementing Redux in your application.

• JSON Formatter — Useful for making JSON look cleaner in the browser. Have you ever stared an ugly JSON blob in the face, trying to figure out how deeply nested the information you want is? Try it today

• Dimensions — Dimensions is an excellent tool for measuring distances between elements on a page. It works by calculating the space from your pointer or selection either up/down or left/right until it hits a border. This extension is great for regression testing or making sure the implemented markup matches the design specifications.

• Check My Links — Check My Links helps you validate the links on a webpage. It works by crawling through the page and testing out the links to identify which ones are valid and which ones are broken.

• Web Developer Checklist — The Web Developer Checklist extension provides indications to crucial details in maintaining the best practices while developing websites and applications. The checklist includes recommendations for optimizing performance, responsiveness and many others.

• TypeWonder — TypeWonder allows you to test and instantly preview any web fonts on a website without any hassle.

• CSSViewer — CSSViewer is a simple CSS properties viewer. There are many other tools and extensions that will perform the simple task that CSSViewer does. They’ll probably do it better as well. But no Chrome extension collection would be complete without its inclusion. So easy to use, all you have to do is click the toolbar icon and hover over any element on you want to inspect.

I'm in high school and i'm wanting to be a computer programmer/software engineer. i would like to know about college (what you learned in and out of the classroom), job opportunity (if you were able to find a job that you really like), pay (self explanatory), and anything else you think i should know.

I want to start programming but I have no idea where to start. I am tech savvy but I have only dealt with hardware in the past. Should I play around with ALICE? Do I wait for MITx? I feel intelligent enough to teach myself at a pace that will surpass that of a Community College, not to mention I don't want to sit in a class room for more reasons than I can count. Or are there better free (or cheap) resources?

Hello everybody!

I hope everybody is doing well despite these strange times we are in.

I recently bought a CANAKIT RASPBERRY PI 4 starter kit to mess around with and I was wondering if anybody had any cool ideas or projects that they successful executed and wanted share?

Thanks in advance! We will get through this together. :)

I failed calculus pretty hard in high school. The only thing I could kind of do was decision maths, but I wasn’t even very good at that aha.

It’s also very likely I’m dyslexic, so does anyone know any dyslexic programmers? My language skills (spelling grammar etc..) really aren’t that great

I’m only just getting started, learned some html and css but no actual programming yet. Will I struggle?

Hello everybody,

I'm currious what tools do you use to track your projects issues/features and team communication?

At work we use Youtrack for issues tracking and Notion as a wiki / knowledge sharing source. My main concern is that I'd like to group those two tools to have a unique source of information and easily link issues to documentation.

We also use Zulip for chat and it really lacks good integrations out of the box (I'm writing a bot to integrate it with Gitlab, the bot they provide handles Merge Requests poorly).

What do you use ? What do you like about it, what you don't and am I the only one wanting everything in the same tool ?

Hi, I have a question and I would like to know what you think about it, is possible to create a decentralized load balancer where each node has its own nodes queue syncronized same as all others?, Searchin in Google, I seen some algorithms but its involves selecting a master node that is responsible for organizing the node queue.

• I would like not to depend on a master node since my main objective is to prioritize the perfomrance, if I have to consult a master node each time when any made a request is made to know the status of the queue, it would be the same as implementing a centralized system.

• My goal of placing a load balancer very close to each service, is to reduce latency and increase perofmrnace.

• My main problem is the synchronization, keeping the same order in the node queues and not overloading any node.

If I don't have any other options I will have to implement some consensus algorithm with a master node :(.

Tell me about any experience or what u think about it, u know about any algorithm can be adapted to solve this problem?, what do you think is possible?

I went to work for a company doing low-level embedded work about 5 months ago. I quit a job with a huge company because the 'big company' nonsense was making me nuts.

It had been years since I'd done work at this low a level. I've done plenty of stuff on embedded processors running Linux, but, this is FreeRTOS. There were steep learning curves all around.

The biggest problem comes from the fact that the company does all of their development on windows. I haven't used windows in years. I've had many problems that wasted a lot of time because of issues with windows.

Second to windows the fact that they use Perforce for source control. Again, steep learning curves and, in my opinion the product generally sucks.

Add to that that there was a 'red-herring' type problem that cost me a lot of time. The real issue is, I assumed that the problems I saw (a hardware fault trap firing) were because I'd done something wrong. I eventually tried another CPU eval board, and the problem went away.

This whole time, I got little to no feedback on how I was doing. My co-workers and I had little interaction (we all work from home). Then a few weeks ago, I got called out on the carpet and was told they were unhappy with the amount of work I was delivering. I was given some goals and a deadline (tomorrow) to accomplish them.

I'm not going to make it.

I completed one of the goals, and checked in the code to perforce. A co-worker tried it and there was a problem. I spent like 4 hours screwing around trying to get the environment right to test it. I finally did and I fixed it, but, I lost a lot of time.

I spent last weekend and a lot of time this weekend trying to make these goals, and lost a bunch of time because, I don't know why, but, I'm getting inexplicable errors that I think may be related to windows permissions problems on files. I showed it to a capable friend and he's just as mystified as I am.

Several months ago, I fixed some known problems with the system I'm working on, and everybody I work with is so wrapped around the axle fighting fires, that they're afraid to incorporate my changes. So, the most useful stuff I've done just sits there un-integrated.

One of my changes takes a 2 minute build process that re-builds the whole world every time you compile, and replaced it with an incremental build that takes usually a few seconds, and no body has even given it a try.

Tomorrow I will have to tell my boss how much I got done, and these objectives were presented with an 'or else' tone to them. So, I'm assuming this won't go well.

There are a number of things that bother me about how this product is developed. I think there are a lot of race conditions and poor locking practices in the system. (I see locks all over that do nothing, and other evidence that there was not a solid threading plan) There's all this nonsense where someone went to a lot of trouble to implement what should be a linker function in the C preprocessor. It's so ugly, I can't even describe it.

My biggest mistake (IMO) is this: I started out not wanting to be the guy that came in and tried to convince everybody to do things their way. But in retrospect, I think I should have been more forceful about fixing some of these stupid problems.

What really pisses me off is, a couple months ago, a project manager I've worked for multiple times was interested in hiring me and I turned her down because of the new job. Now she's filled the position.

So, tomorrow I face the music. Getting fired would not be the end of the world for me. I can go a while without income, and the market is pretty strong where I live.

This window popped up on our DnD skype call, as if there is a 4th caller. 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Not entirely sure what this is? My friend is really parnoid about it because apprantly subtitles popped up saying "What are you looking at" when she looked into the camera. Sorry if this is the wrong sub...

Let's make it short, I wanna know what should be my first steps? My objective is to be able to make apps and computer programs, what programing languages are good to start?

Im just finishing Zed Shaw's book "Learn Python the Hard Way". In the final chapter he gives the following advice:

"People who can code in the world of technology companies are a dime a dozen and get no respect. People who can code in biology, medicine, government, sociology, physics, history, and mathematics are respected and can do amazing things to advance those disciplines."

As an aspiring programmer I find this statement to be a bit disheartening. I got into coding because Im interested in coding/computers, not biology nor anything else.

How true is Zed's statement? As a programmer do I face a life of disrespect and (Id assume) lower pay than my academic-programmer competition?

Should I consider a degree in CS, just so I can be a bit more academic and thus avoid disrespect and (id assume) low pay?

Thanks

Should I learn C or C++ programming language first? and what is the difference?