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I've been coding for 26 years. if I could distill my experience into one sentence it would be:

"functions and data is all you need"

don't get distracted by fancy language features. every language has functions, every language has structs. mastering programming is just composing functions and transforming data. once you master this you can program in any language.

if you focus building programs as small, pure, modular functions that operate on *only* the data it needs, then you will have a large set of functions that are highly composable. you will never have to do large rewrites of your program, because your program will compose of lego blocks that you can snap together in different ways.

gm nostr!
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Lethal Lee 8mo ago

Appreciate this! I’m trying to be the meme, “Learn to Code”

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jb55 8mo ago

i spent the first 10 years of my programming life struggling with why I had to rewrite my programs all the time. it was mainly because I didn't appreciate or understand this simple fact.

to be fair I was trying to teach myself programming from a "c++ for dummies" book with no internet, so that was probably why. "fancy" c++ teaches you the absolute worst programming practices.

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Lethal Lee 8mo ago

I tried to jump into Rust as all the cool bitcoin projects seemed to use it. My only experience being some Python scripting at best. That seemed like a mistake, going back to Python to cut my teeth.