Scripts etc.

[Kentaro Kurosaki]

Who programs? And if you do. Would you like to see a subforum in the Computers Forum?

[Eris]

There's already programming discussion in the computer forum. I don't think the lack of programming discussion is so much because there is no forum for it, but the lack of people who are into it (beyond the usual gamers-who-think-they-want-to-learn-programming-so-they-can-make-a-game type of people.)

[Cantelope]

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[Alphabet]

I would like to learn programming, so I can actually make my own software and customize it.(Mainly office suites) Having some tutorials instead it's own own sub-forum wouldn't be a bad idea though.
I know a bit of Java, and I'm learning some Javascript from Codecademy.
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[Skylar1]

Sounds interesting. I'd certainly like to flex out my skills which are still pretty noobish. I got into racket near the beginning of the year, but life and other such things haven't given me a whole lot of time to really practice much.

I'd like to get good enough to create my own probability/statistical generating programs.

[Gjallarhorn]

There's already programming discussion in the computer forum. I don't think the lack of programming discussion is so much because there is no forum for it, but the lack of people who are into it (beyond the usual gamers-who-think-they-want-to-learn-programming-so-they-can-make-a-game type of people.)

I'd thought about posting something about this a while ago, but for those of us who want to learn to program, how about some small tutorial threads or educational walkthroughs? I've looked through the (I think it was called) Resource Thread a few times because I want to pick up Python (as I use MATLAB, which I've read has a similar format to Python), but I haven't found much of it very helpful beyond doing basic math, some some basic math with for/while loops.

[GameGeeks]

There's already programming discussion in the computer forum. I don't think the lack of programming discussion is so much because there is no forum for it, but the lack of people who are into it (beyond the usual gamers-who-think-they-want-to-learn-programming-so-they-can-make-a-game type of people.)

I was that once. Then I took a class in high school and never wanted to see a script again.

[Eris]

I'd thought about posting something about this a while ago, but for those of us who want to learn to program, how about some small tutorial threads or educational walkthroughs? I've looked through the (I think it was called) Resource Thread a few times because I want to pick up Python (as I use MATLAB, which I've read has a similar format to Python), but I haven't found much of it very helpful beyond doing basic math, some some basic math with for/while loops.

If the python books linked in the resource thread didn't pan out for you, try this book. It's a bit more problem-solving oriented, which may help with the self-teaching. But if you manage to find more people wanting to learn python, you could set up a study circle, where you read a few chapters per week (like 2-3? Depends on how much time you want to spend on it), solve the exercises, and compare solutions / discuss the material in a thread.

{ --edit-- Actually, you know what? This really sounds like a good idea. I'm pinning up a notice to see how many are interested. }

At any rate, I'd strongly suggest learning from a book rather than stray tutorials. The latter is a terrible way to learn programming that leaves you with massive knowledge gaps and bad coding practices (this is why web developers, who typically rely heavily on tutorials, are the laughing stock of the programming world. While they're not all terrible, a rather unfortunate amount of them are.).

I did try to write tutorials in the computer section when it was new, but I stopped partly because few people seemed interested, and partly because I'm not really a python programmer, so it became sort of a tutorial on how to write C code in python.

[Kentaro Kurosaki]

Yay! Wonderful idea, already on the list