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PaperclipPerfector  10mo ago (text post)   2936 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for July 9, 2023

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

This is your opportunity to ask questions. No question too simple or too silly.

Culture war topics are accepted, and proposals for a better intro post are appreciated.

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If using the SSQ, Wellness and Fun threads interchangably is a crime, then it's straight to jail for me. You hardly get any eyeballs after a few days, so I'd rather have my posts read by more people.

I've taken @screye 's advice to heart and enrolled in the MIT OCW Intro to Python, and grinded it for about 4 hours while on Ritalin, till my head stopped working. Most of it seems simple enough, especially since I know the analogous concepts from Java, but I'm still getting tripped up by syntactic details where my expectations from the latter don't apply. Python is certainly far less verbose, and that's very refreshing! (Not that I'm ignoring the other excellent suggestions people have made, but I only have so much time to pursue them)

Still baby's first steps, but the way my brain works, as long as I can overcome my utter laziness and ennui, and start, I've massively increased my odds of sticking through with it. Please name and shame if I desist, I want to at least finish this course of around 6 or 7 units and have done 2 of them so far.

Having video transcripts available is a big boon, since instead of just watching them at 1.5x speed, I can skim through the text as necessary.

GPT-4 is also a massive help, my god how did I ever learn anything without it? My biggest problem is simply not giving in and having it do all my homework for me, which would be defeating the point to say the least haha

I think almost everyone uses them interchangeably, but the prompts/themes serve as discussion points if you’re not sure what to post (better than just calling it a ‘community thread’ or something), so I think they should stay.

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