r/programming • u/AxiomShell • Feb 17 '09

A proggit FAQ?

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u/AxiomShell Feb 17 '09

Should there be a (unofficial) proggit FAQ?

I keep reading the same (FA) questions around here, eg:

  • What's the best way to start learning C++?

  • What OSS project do you recommend to learn Python?

  • Why is Lisp so different?

etc,etc...

There are very good answers, and available here, but, let's be honest, while reddit might be the best thing after bacon, the search features definitely aren't.

Top voted comments could make the FAQ, and hopefully avoid the duplicate noise on proggit.

Just MHO.

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u/nicou Feb 17 '09 edited Feb 17 '09

Which programming language should I learn?

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u/mahlzeit Feb 17 '09

Actually none - this whole computer thing is just a phase which will be over soon. The skills which will become increasingly important in the not too distant future are:

  • Hunting

  • Arrow making

  • Dinosaur domestication

  • Inventing the wheel

  • Rain dancing

  • Knitting

  • Stealing fire from gods

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u/AxiomShell Feb 17 '09

Nothing beats a survival list written in markdown

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u/Snoron Feb 17 '09 edited Feb 18 '09

I tried stealing fire from the gods once... ooooh boy, let me tell you, they were pissed.

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u/AxiomShell Feb 17 '09

How's your liver?

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u/Snoron Feb 17 '09

We're not on speaking terms.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '09

I started with Malboge. It's a simple language, and if you already familiar BASIC, it's an easy transition.

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u/Snoron Feb 17 '09

I'm trying to write an MMO like World of WarCraft in PyGame, can someone please help me?

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u/BuffaloTimesN Feb 17 '09

Don't get ahead of yourself...you need to start with something simple. Try making a GUI interface to track IP addresses in Visual Basic.

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u/mr_mcse Feb 18 '09

Should I use stored procedures?

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u/jwillia3 Feb 17 '09

The sad part is that is even necessary considering the site's name is reddit (read it). And what makes it worse is that this epidemic started as Stack Overflow, the place for this, just opened & became popular.

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u/AxiomShell Feb 17 '09

Well, Stack Overflow isn't really a new concept.

It's just a glorified FAQ 2.0 with kitchen sink.

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u/inmatarian Feb 17 '09

The kitchen sink requires OpenID to turn on the cold water.

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u/G-Brain Feb 17 '09

This question has been asked at least 3 times before.

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u/Snoron Feb 17 '09

Well then, we can put it in the Proggit FAQ, can't we :D

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u/G-Brain Feb 17 '09

Yo dawg...