Coding Practice
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Hi
There is a Hackathon coming up at work in a couple of weeks and I have no fucking clue what to do.
I work on Data Visualization these days and it has been more than half a year since I wrote any code at all. I know enough C# and Python to get shit done but my coding skills are extremely rusty. I want to get back into coding, atleast to a level where I'm competent enough to build something that works. I only have a very vague memory of what coding feels like.-
How do I go about getting back into the programming mode, Python in particular ?
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What new streams of Technology are out there that are interesting and can be learnt over the span of a week?
(When I say streams I mean something like ML or Image Recognition or whatever) -
Relating to Question no 1, How do you cram enough practice in a couple weeks to make you productive at the end of it ?
I am not even sure if I'm asking the right questions but any help is appreciated.
Note: I have never been in a Hackathon before.
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@stillwater said in Coding Practice:
How do I go about getting back into the programming mode
Since you've done it before, the best approach is to stop worrying about the meta-problem and start actually practicing.
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@stillwater said in Coding Practice:
How do I go about getting back into the programming mode, Python in particular ?
I would have thought the answer obvious: write some Python ;)
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Why not write some forum software? That's always good for a laugh
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@RaceProUK said in Coding Practice:
I would have thought the answer obvious: write some Python
I know that but was looking for an efficient way to go about it.
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@stillwater said in Coding Practice:
@RaceProUK said in Coding Practice:
I would have thought the answer obvious: write some Python
I know that but was looking for an efficient way to go about it.
One possibility: Think of something you do every day that would be easier if it was automated. Then automate it with Python. That way, you get back into development, and make something useful.
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I got a Raspberry Pi a few months ago and had a play with Python on it by writing a simple Twitter bot. You can quite quickly go from something that tweets a single phrase every time you run it to doing a search, parsing the JSON of the response and doing one of those auto response bots
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Done.
#!/usr/bin/env python
print "Why not just carry on browsing the web and do that work stuff later?"
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@tufty said in Coding Practice:
Done.
#!/usr/bin/env python
print "Why not just carry on browsing the web and do that work stuff later?"Now you're just encouraging outdated practices.
#!/usr/bin/env python
print("Why not just carry on browsing the web and do that work stuff later?")There, nice and modern.
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@MZH That's not modern, it has less whitespace.
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@TimeBandit said in Coding Practice:
@tufty said in Coding Practice:
@MZH That's not modern, it has less whitespace.
Canada is modern !
And thanks to Europe, no longer just in landscape terms.
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@TimeBandit said in Coding Practice:
Canada is modern !
Congratulations for finding the only context where that's true.
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@loopback0 said in Coding Practice:
Congratulations for finding the only context where that's true.
We can't really be modern as long as we are still under the Queen's monarchy
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@TimeBandit said in Coding Practice:
We can't really be modern as long as we are still under the Queen's monarchy
would you rather have Donald Trump as your head of state?
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@Jaloopa said in Coding Practice:
@TimeBandit said in Coding Practice:
We can't really be modern as long as we are still under the Queen's monarchy
would you rather have Donald Trump as your head of state?
Of course. Shit, I'd rather have Hillary Clinton as my head of state than your Queen.
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@boomzilla won't be long and we'll have Charles instead
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@Jaloopa I think I like Elizabeth II more than Charles. Not that I really know that much about them.
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@TimeBandit said in Coding Practice:
We can't really be modern as long as we are still under the Queen's monarchy
What makes it worse is you can't benefit from the billions of tourist dollars we Brits rake in every year from Americans who think a postbox is special because it has the royal crest on it.
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@Jaloopa said in Coding Practice:
@boomzilla won't be long and we'll have Charles instead
All our coins have the Queen's face on the back. When she dies, if they replace it with Charles face, our coins will need to get bigger to make room for his ears
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@TimeBandit With luck, he'll abdicate to William, whose ears aren't big.
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@RaceProUK said in Coding Practice:
With luck, he'll abdicate to William
Come on, the poor guy's been waiting 65 years to get on that throne. It would be pretty cruel to make him give it up now.
I mean, the guy's entire job all his life has been waiting for his mum to die
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@Jaloopa said in Coding Practice:
the guy's entire job all his life has been waiting for his mum to die
And the worst thing is, he sucks at it.
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Python has some pretty good computer vision libs. If you're good with math, maybe you can get into the machine learning field through that.
Something like, take a camera feed and figure out how to recognize your family's faces. Then make an app that monitors door and gives each person a custom greeting. Stuff like that. Hacker news' gonna eat that shit up if you do a good job.
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@TimeBandit said in Coding Practice:
@Jaloopa said in Coding Practice:
the guy's entire job all his life has been waiting for his mum to die
And the worst thing is, he sucks at it.
I remember some years ago hearing someone wishing HRM a long and healthy life — long enough to outlive her son.
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