I keep trying programming but it's so hard

Which programming language? Phyton?

How do you not understand any programming but still write programs? You have to have had understood SOMETHING, right?

Practice practice and practice

>nice dubs

Java, and it wasn't for anything work-related. I never got much further than making really basic games, like on the level of minesweeper.

Well math.
Nothing else I can do that will pay for a house in canada.

Install gentoo

You understand it on a basic level, right?

I unironically did this at some point.

>It's what I did my degree in
How on earth do people get a CS degree without knowing how to program?

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I think he made a mistake in saying that he majored in CS. He later said he majored in Math.

Where did you get that image? Thanks for that. It was a good laugh. Do you have more of those? These candidates seem dumb. Also, experience doesn’t help if you lack common sense.

it's from some thread on Jow Forums a day or two ago.
I think a math's degree at least shows he has a head on his shoulders, in that case OP, it's practice, practice and practice.
Just to make sure, you're trying to get into programming because it interests you, right? and not because it pays loads of monee?
Because I think people who are not drawn naturally to programming have a terrible fucking time dealing with it.

How do you ‘naturally get drawn’ to programming?
I’m not OP.
I mean, most people can easily get programming if they have common sense.
Do you mean that we should like doing programming?

Don't overthink it, what I meant was "do you like it?".
If a person doesn't start out being interested in it and genuinely liking doing it for the sake of doing it than that person is getting into programming for the wrong reasons and will have a terrible time.

Don’t worry, I’m not overthinking it. I thought you meant to say ‘liked it or not’ & so so in my reply at the end. Why did you have to say ‘naturally drawn’? It makes it sound like you were chosen for programming by the programming God & so, it’s calling to you to further it’s goals.
I just overthought it didn’t I? Sorry.

But seriously, for the second part of your comment, that seems obvious, right? To do stuff you like? Why would people subject themselves to the torture of doing stuff they don’t like.

Is OP still even reading this?

>Why would people subject themselves to the torture of doing stuff they don’t like.
Two kinds of people would get specifically into programming (or try to, anyway) without liking it.
The first are those that hear about how much high tech pays, how great the job itself is (in terms of shit the give you, the way the office looks, break rooms, or stocked kitchens, of course they don't take into account the fact those conditions exist because high tech workers work very long days) and how hitech dudes are modern day rockstars because lol zuckerberg and steve jobs.
The second kind is the people who are absolute dorks who think hi tech is an easy ticket to the good life because nerds work there and I'm a nerd, right??
>Why did you have to say ‘naturally drawn’? It makes it sound like you were chosen for programming by the programming God & so, it’s calling to you to further it’s goals
Yes, you overthought big time, a person being naturally drawn to something isn't some Excalibur shit, it's just when a person genuinely wants to get into something because it's interesting.

I actually really enjoy it, well, some parts of it.

I really enjoy slowly going through algorithms and programs and optimizing them. I really hate having to regurgitate set patterns at high speed.

Maybe it is just practice.

as someone with a math degree myself. For me personally it helped a lot to learn theoretical informatics. It gave me a clear understanding of what a higher level programming language really is and how simple the building blocks actually are. Also computability theory is neato.
Will probably not help you with your specific problems but maybe you gain more interest in the craft

Interesting. So people choose jobs they don’t like in programming because they’re idiots. Makes sense.

Come on man. I was using ‘naturally drawn’ in the context of the proper meanings of those words. You meant something else. Call it even & stop talking about it?

I'll look into it!

>there are people who fake their way through programming without even understanding it
>I actually understand it and cant get a job
very bitter about this

>find all the odd numbers between 0 and 100
lol u fucking retard odd numbers are defined like 2p+1 bro just multiply by 2 and add 1 boom you got an odd number u fucking retard no need for the modulo operator at all...

>How do I get better at programming?
PRACTICE.

Anything else anyone mentions is bullshit.
You get better with practice and nothing else.

That is the magic bullet

Which country do you live in? Which programming language?

Or you can make i=i+2. The point is there are lots of ways. But that program seems complicated, yes.

I don’t know that language very well so I can’t say much about it,

Practice always works

>i=i+2
what

i work at a major corp and most people dont know how to program. most of our 'data 'scientists' dont understand basic statistics or basic coding concepts. the majority of "rising stars" in tech are people that do front end work or data visualization. programming is something business ships offshore for cheap, then pays contractors $300/hr to clean up 3 days before release.

learn some css frameworks and sell yourself as a frontend developer focused on the user experience

I just came to code academy and found out I've been learning Python 2 not 3 the whole time. Fuck me.

>It's what I did my degree in
OP are you actually retarded?

Doesn’t this language have that? It can be used in C++. Sorry. I don’t know this language very well.

It has small difference I believe. Just check the differences. Everything else is the same. I saw it on Codecademy.

This scares me

Learning how to code effectively is more important than the language itself

I feel like "interesting" is a loose word. I find i can be interested in just about anything. Biology, engineering, Programming and so on. Its just my attention wanes quickly as soon any real work goes into it.

If it has real life applications I find it interesting, but I haven't found something that I do well with ease or holds my attention.

bro I said 2p+1 not p+2 or i+2 lol... think about it for a second... i=0... i+2... odd number. Just let these things float around in ur mind for a while.

Same here, I have a programming degree and I don't even know how to write code so I can't find a job. I change my career after that.

I said i=i+2 starting with i=1. Each iteration gets the subsequent odd number. This method can also get odd numbers in C++.

I wasn’t saying your method was wrong. I just stated a different way of getting odd numbers in C++ directly without checking any condition.

Switch to a different degree. I was studying Software development but was too dumb so switched to Business Information Systems which is like half business subjects and half IT subjects. So we do some database development, web development and Data Analytics. Its good enough to get you in the door OP. I've got a job lined up started in January doing Data Analytics

adventofcode.com/ is a good site for some practice with algorithms
just work at it
even a monkey can into coding

Can you learn programming when you are absolute brainlet at math?

I'm struggling with basic cs shit, but this image can't be real what the fuck

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Three rules of programming.
1. Be autistic
2. Don't not be autistic
3. There is no rule three
Get a job in marketing and get laid.

It depends. You don't need any math at all, not even arithmetic, to be an India-tier code monkey webdev.

You need a math PhD to do real work for a big dev like Google or Oracle.

Aaaaah

I been programming everyday for about 18 years and I finally feel like I'm getting kinda good at it.

As for passing interviews, just soak up youtube lectures on "what's new in..." whatever language or library you're supposed to be familiar with.

I hate tech interviews too. They make me feel like an idiot.

Data analyst is my dream career path. I’m already working as an SEO Specialist and I want to switch to data analytics. But I think it’s a waste of time to learn again and start over my career path from the beginning because I’m already 25.

I’m more than ready to learn SQL, Python etc.