Why do you learn to code?

Metatrons Cube · Mar 4, 2019

I started coding about 4 yrs ago because I wanted to webscrape and was sick of hiring ppl where 50% of time they did a poor quality job. Then as I got into business ideas more, realized that the power you give yourself by learning to code (mainly Python in my case) allows you to bring ideas to life quickly. The added benefit is that you then understand what you programs do intimately (as opposed to being a non-coder hiring others).. and as an extra bonus there's no other activity I find more enjoyable tbh

Heatz · Mar 4, 2019

"Programing isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out."
Being a self-taught programmer teaches you more than just coding, it teaches you how to solve problems. It rewires the way you think.

And in a hands-on, practical way? Imagine what you could achieve with automation and replication of any task.

TonyToan · Mar 4, 2019

alice252293 said:
Dont worrry, Sooner or later the kids will realise that their majors dont suit theme. fact, 500/3500 students dropped out of college (University of Technology) after 4 years just because they dont like their major. 2000 (I made that up lol) will work in sales/ marketing companies ($200-$300 per month). Take me as an example, I chose my major just because the name sounds cool (Tourism and Hospitality Management) . People especially parents and relatives in Vietnam always talk about things they dont know. "study that major you will make a lot of money, that guy make $xxx, you should study that major, your cousin, your neighbor's sons ....my blah blah."

And the highest earner in my family is a salesman lol. Now he owns a marketing company. He dropped out of Hanoi University 9 years ago while being a second-year student.
All my relatives and parents say he is lucky, not everyone will be like him. @@ Instead, the kids should go to tech school to get a stable job with a high salary (around 600$ - 2k$ as I know).
I love coding. Actually, coding brought me to BHW

I think everyone should learn to code but not everyone should study computer science.

alice252293 · Mar 4, 2019

TonyToan said:
And the highest earner in my family is a salesman lol. Now he owns a marketing company. He dropped out of Hanoi University 9 years ago while being a second-year student.
All my relatives and parents say he is lucky, not everyone will be like him. @@ Instead, the kids should go to tech school to get a stable job with a high salary (around 600$ - 2k$ as I know).
I love coding. Actually, coding brought me to BHW I think everyone should learn to code but not everyone should study computer science.

It's quite simple, If you like coding, just be good at it. Find freelance jobs, bring $1000-$2000 per month to your family then everyone will change their thinking.

Nonilol · Mar 4, 2019

terrycody said:
Do u know where to download the whole ebooks series of any big CS major courses from any big schools? I don't mean the CS50 CSxxx, etc crash course, I mean the complete books package a student will learn from day 1 into the university to graduated from CS major after 4 years.

Sorry terry, no idea. I've never really gotten reading lists for the whole course, always per class.

OSSU has a list of great books / articles on theit github, maybe that helps: https://github.com/ossu/computer-science/blob/dev/extras/readings.md
Also check out the readings they suggest in their curriculum: https://github.com/ossu/computer-science (ctrl + f "readings")
Open Source Society University is not a real uni tho, it's a project where people collect the best resources for studying CS. They have really high standards though, all courses they recommend are from large universities (MIT, Stanford,...)

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