Bro same here am looking into getting a book on c#11 just to bring me up to speed and help me improve before starting some tough game projects
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What was the company you found for learning C#?
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Sorry for silly question, but I’m just curious. How it would affect a person who knows nothing about programming at all?
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If one doesn’t take action as far as a certain minimum commitment to learning something regularly, I’d imagine reconciliation of some sort.
But it would at least help with a general-purpose learning mindset.
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It’s a skill based learning subliminal.
You’re supposed to run it alongside learning programming, not doing that would just cause reconciliation symptoms.
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King Radiance stacked with Index Gate: Ultimate Programmer X
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Zero to Mastery is the site.
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It’s not in C# 11 but I went through half the the C# Players Guide by RB Whitaker. It teaches modern C# and uses C# 10.
I recommend it at least to get the basics down. It does pick up after the OOP section which is what made me realize I need to learn more about classes and methods before I continue to go through it.
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There’s also SoloLearn. I just looked at their app and they have C++
You can do more on a laptop with them as well
Nice well start off with the basic, when I was learning I stayed on the basic stuff to make sure I understood the foundations.
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I listened to a loop on the way home. I’ve been doing SQL exercises to get ready for my final on Sunday. I took a break from SQL and decided to try a LeetCode exercise in C#. Here is a screenshot. I’m excited because this is the first problem I’ve solved on there without having to look up the solution.
Here it is:
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Would stacking IG and Ultimate Writer X be a good idea? Would they mesh together?
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You might write computer books 
Seriously though. Like some of the best advances I’ve made have been in ignoring official documentation for certain APIs and just look for stuff by actual devs with examples of how they made their project work.
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You’ve said someone “who knows nothing about programming at all”.
That’s describing what they know.
But what we’re more interested in is ‘what is around them’ (Environment), ‘what they’re interacting with’ (Environment), and ‘what they would like to do’ (Motivation) and ‘how they would like to develop’ (Motivation).
How it would affect a person who knows nothing about programming at all?
The short answer: they’ll probably start learning something about it.
Programming is more than just sitting in front of a computer. It’s a set of ways of thinking, understanding, creating, and dealing with problems/questions.
It involves applying the skill of ‘Operationalizing’.
You’ll probably become more skillful, strategic, and resourceful in how you organize and navigate the world around you.
You’ll probably become less mentally and cognitively rigid, less prone to discouragement, and better able to pivot into an alternate strategy for solving a problem and getting things where you want them to be.
You’ll probably become more observant and better at ‘reading’ situations, or translating situations into elements that can be read.
But where and how you apply this potential of the Programmer’s Mind will be influenced by your Environment and by your Motivated Plans and Actions. So, it will vary from one person to the next.
(You can see from the above that people have been programming since long before there were silicon-based, electronic personal computers. Whenever a person reads a situation or system and develops algorithms for more effectively reaching goals, they’re doing it.)
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@SaintSovereign I’m hoping you’ll be able to provide some insight for me here.
Reading the copy for this makes it sound like a valuable tool for a beginner or junior programmer to help develop some of the necessary skills for this profession. But what do you think this can offer a more experienced engineer?
I usually avoid saying too much about myself on here, but briefly, I’ve been in this industry over 25 years, worked for some of the most recognizable names in the world in senior roles on some really cutting edge projects, travelled and lived around the world thanks to this profession (I’ve accrued 3 citizenships and am eligible for a 4th next year for my current country of residence), and made a great deal of money along the way. I’ve already achieved or mastered most of what is listed in the description, and I’ve often been considered that “miracle worker” the copy mentions.
So when you released this title and I read the description my first thought was “ok, I don’t think this would offer me much”.
But I saw this post:
The Revelation series has been excellent so this comment really sparked my interest.
Given the above do you think this title would provide much value for someone like me?
Additionally, I’ve struggled to maintain my interest in this profession over the last couple of years. Nothing seems like a challenge anymore. Do you think this could help rekindle some of that passion I use to have?
I’m happy to devote a few months to a sub that could potentially have profound effects on my career, but I don’t want to commit to that if it’s mainly designed for those just getting into the profession.
Would really appreciate your thoughts on this.
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I’ve used to think the same.
But I am uncertain of going into this field, given the growing influence of AI.
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do you think AI won’t be able to replace any other workers if it can replace programmers?
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Yes, it will help you understand coding in ways you’ve never considered before. It also has an element of understanding the deep aspects of the creative process that will change the way you approach coding in a beneficial way. I can’t really explain it, hence why I compare it to a Revelation title.
I’ll give an example that happened to me, which again is hard to explain. Once I understood how the simulated time in Unity worked and how that affects the way the game is rendered (it does so in “ticks” —intervals that you can modify), it dawned on me that this seems to be a lower, simpler reflection (game world) of a higher reality (ours). And as the creator of that world, I’m not subjected to the laws of time and space of that lower world. If we raise that concept by an order of magnitude, it could indicate that this reality — if created, would operate similarly as this universe is proven to be fractal. Then I began to wonder, how far does this go, then? Nested realities within realities and the such.
I don’t know why this result had such a crazy effect, but suddenly my ability to understand code skyrocketed and not just understand it, but actually utilize it as if I was speaking my native tongue. I realized that I’m no longer creating for money (though of course, I still want to generate an income), but for the act of creation as alchemy. By creating worlds and realities, I’m delving into myself and externalizing that for the sake of enhancing someone else’s experience.
Probably doesn’t make any sense, but it was a profound shift for me and changed me. And that was on the prototype.
For an individual like you, I would imagine that this title would help you understand why you were drawn to coding in the first place and what part of you needed expression.
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In that case I’ll commit to a few months running this to see how it expresses in me, alongside KBC.
Thank you.
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