#beginner programming

[dont-open-dead-inside-net]

guyyys look what i wrote all on my own!

[lillys-shadow]

tehe I wrote an article

[gojostan-doodles]

🩷 *Talks a lot*

💜 *Likes to listen*

[roseofhybrids]

you know what would be fun?

A puzzle game where you're given a bunch of different objects, magazines, books, food labels, et cetera, all with a made up language on them. Then, with just the objects you're given, you have to decipher how to read the conlang your only clues come from the pictures and contents of the items

say for example, the game gives you two cans they're different brands, but two of the words on the front of them match the game lets you open the cans, and inside you find that both are filled with tomato soup ergo, you can conclude that the shared words mean "tomato soup"

then you can take another can, this one only shares one word and is filled with vegetable soup. Therefore, that single word that all three cans share must mean "soup" and by process of elimination the other word means "tomato"

and the idea is you keep doing this with different words till you can fully translate everything

[librarycard]

Omg are you in school to become a librarian? I’ve been considering doing the same, but I’m a little put off by how long the process is 😭 from when I looked it up it said you need a masters. I’m curious what your experience has been so far if you don’t mind my asking?

You do need a masters to be a librarian, which is typically a two year commitment (if you’re full time), I’ll be getting mine in 2.5ish bc i started part time and am transitioning to full time this fall. My MLIS is with an archival studies concentration + digital libraries focus and I find it incredibly rewarding honestly, i got my BA in Public History and worked in Digital Humanities for two years so it was a super natural transition for me. lots of ppl start their MLIS with 0 experience in libraries though and the intro classes are frequently very beginner friendly.

i’m getting my degree online and have evening classes twice or three times a week (one meeting per week per class). I find that library programs are deeply queer even at my deep south institution and are super flexible to your interests and goals. + scholarships are typically easier to get than you think. open up your heart to a beautiful MLIS program

[leity44]

Made in collaboration with my friend Awooroo/Dusty They drew the sketch & I got some good practice coloring it in, & inspired me to sketch something pokemon-related that'll be posted soon

[cosmogyros]

That moment when you have to let people be wrong about you because correcting them would make you seem like an unbearable show-off

I was at a bookstore with a friend the other day and I was looking at a book in German that I was interested in buying, but then I saw that it was a translation and had originally been written in French

I commented idly to my friend "Sometimes I don't buy a book because it's a translation and I always prefer to read in the original language when possible" and she said in an agreeing-with-me way, "Yeah it would make more sense to read it in English"

and I realized she assumed I meant English when I said "original language"

but I couldn't bring myself to say "Yeah, or French or Dutch or Spanish or Italian or Portuguese or one of the other languages I read..." because like. who says that kind of thing.

[essential-randomness]

I made some pages in HTML and CSS, now what?

For this week's Content™, I answer a question that troubles all buddying web developers: what should you learn once you've become somewhat comfortable with HTML and CSS?

In this article, we explore 3 paths:

Static Site Generation, for those who like creating a lot of content (and my recommendation for fannish folks). If you've heard me continuously rave about Astro, this is where you'll learn to set it up.

Playing Around in the Browser, for those who want a taste of JavaScript without committing to installing anything (or are looking to add more complex interactivity to their pages).

The Server Path, for those who want to learn how to work with data to create things like guestbooks and comment sections!

I hope this is useful, and let me know what you all think!

[itsnicsalad]

Hi there! Hope you don't mind, but I needed to ask, what art program would you recommend for a beginner? I've been thinking about digitalizing my art but idk where to start, so if it's not too much trouble, could you give me some pointers? Thank you, and have a great day :D

free programs like medibang and firealpaca are pretty good, they were what i started with. krita and ibis paint i heard are also good but i havent used either of them so youll have to do some of your own experimenting^^

[soratonin]

thank you to the amazing artists on youtube who make detailed tutorials and hacks for anime drawing on intimidating art softwares and programs for beginner artists FOR FREE . and encouraging in every video like your art doesn’t need to be good starting out you will do great keep practicing and you can be just as good of an artist your art is yours and no one else’s etc etc . my word ya’ll need your ass ate yesterday

[purplecowbell]

Libre Office: Come on baby, work on your stories, we've been with you for your entire life, why don't you finish us?

Fanfic and Original work: Come back to us! If you don't write us, who will?

Nonfiction: Don't you know how nice and professional you'll look with a portfolio of me?

Kdenlive: Portfolio? No one's hiring for that. Edit some videos, you missed doing that in high school. Let's work on a medium that hasn't been totally devalued yet.

Ren py & Twine: You know you want to work on interactive fiction. You've always wanted to make a game. Let's combine the best of both worlds.

Godot & Gamemaker: Sure those can be games, but we're the big leagues. You can learn a whole new set of skills and have full control over the systems designed to showcase your narratives. Don't you want to be a real game dev?

RPG Maker: I'm pure level design baby. The restrictions I give you force you to flex your creativity without making you bogged down by details. You want to design a game with some meat on it. not spend a year trying to animate a walk cycle.

Libre Office again: I thought you were a writer first and foremost? Shouldn't you spend more time trying to hone that craft instead of jumping into oversaturated fields? (Editor's note: The arguments cycle until the end of time with very little actually accomplished.)

[dont-open-dead-inside-net]

not beating the tumblrina allegations with this test case

my reference madlib. not exactly the same

[lukas-broken-bow]

it says I'm missing a return statement

on a line where the only content is '}'

WHAT

[mrluky655]

[trinityssantos]

as someone with not the best good hand-eye coordination, would crocheting be a somewhat easy task......