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I just got my new Alienware 17 R4 last week. I intended, primarily, on using it to learn programming through OSS. I'm 24 with no college or skills so programming is my last hope of becoming something.
I haven't had a PC in years though and so far I've spent the entire first week playing games like league of legends. I'm at work now but I feel like its gonna take the discipline of a fucking jedi to sit down and grind lectures instead of playing games.
Does anyone have any programming motivation or anything? I dont want to end up a failure because I couldnt stop playing games.
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>I just got my new Alienware 17 R4 last week. I intended, primarily, on using it to learn programming through OSS
If this is bait 8/10
If youre this retarded you cant learn programming just give up
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>>57202867
>alienware
>I'm 24 with no college or skills so programming is my last hope of becoming something.
yeah no you're not getting out of your mom's basement
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>>57202879
>>57202890
these two are bait
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>>57202867
just uninstall the fucking game you retarded piece of shit
>needing motivation other than not wanting to be a fucking failure
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Wtf this cat is more charismatic than me
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>>57202867
install temple os
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>>57202945
Seems legit.
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>>57202867
0 - don't do drugs
1 - learn c++
2 - learn mathematics (lambda calculus is a good start, then linear algebra. watch numberphile on youtube)
3 - learn hardware
4 - never accept that you know anything. you don't. as soon as you think you do, learn something else that challenges you.
live by this rule - if you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.
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>>57202998
Yeah, OSS starts with cs50 at Harvard and then a calculus course. I dont do drugs. Including pot.
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>>57202867
why would you go out of your way to buy a gaymer laptop if your intention was to use it for learning? You'll never succeed with this sort of attitude
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>>57202867
Post pic of Alienware laptop or we don't belive you.
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>>57202867
>>>57202998 's step 0 is optional
As for programming motivation, watch The Social Network.
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>>57204887
step 0 is NOT optional
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In my experience, the best way to learn anything is to have a use for it. For example, I wanted to learn Tkinter, so I wrote a frontend for mpv in it. You want to sort your files? Learn to write a script in python to do so. You would be surprised how much you learn when you actually have an idea and have to implement it.
Find a problem, and then write code to fix it.
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>>57204948
>mfw it really is
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