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i'm very tired of python being treated as the ideal first language

okay i'm about to go off about something very specific that's not actually about python but rather the way we treat computer science in stem and okay anyway uh sorry if you have no idea what i'm talking about OKAY

people who support python blindly DNI (/joke HOWEVER please don't tell me how i'm wrong and python is great actually because i'm not arguing that python is bad i'm making a specific argument about teaching python and i am so TIRED of having to explain the difference)

OKAY SO i'm not going to talk about (at length) why i feel python is bad, nor am i going to talk about how people refuse to acknowledge there are options between python and java (AND the fact that treating java at like it's the high end for being "hard to learn" when it's REALLY NOT and in fact all the things that people complain about with it are actually things they SHOULD LEARN and python obscures talk to me about classes later) because well. i don't want to do that at this moment what i want to talk about is.

hello, data scientists, engineers, people whose fields use python as a primary language, ESPECIALLY those who use jupyter notebook. hello especially to those who feel python is the best and most relevant language and the obvious choice for a first language, because it's what people will need.

if you are an Evangelist about the matter, i'm speaking to you. everyone else, meh, i mean i have a point to make but i don't have a bone to pick with you.

now i get that data science and engineering and so on (i'm going to refer to data science but i mean all of the things) is an important field. i know. i get it. but.

i was getting into my favourite argument: python and semantic white-space. i'm not going to repeat it because it's a petty argument on my part but also not but i can sidestep it and still get to my point because at some point, my main opponent says, "yeah, but everyone uses python." and he starts listing off all of these applications and-

"those are all data science or engineering."

"well, yeah. why else would people learn to code?"

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if you are nodding along here, i am speaking to you, because this is SO wrong. yes, that's why Some people learn to code. BUT.

some people want to do web design. some people want to do game development. some people want to use it in math. some people have other goals that i don't know. maybe they want to program their own functions in excel, or macros, or use autohotkey to do weird shit. i don't know and i don't care, because.

python is, objectively, a good language. i dislike it, but that doesn't make it bad. i have a lot of criticisms about white space and readibility and i dislike how people don't think there's a way to have no semicolons and also brackets around functions (ruby and lua for ones i've personally used), but -- python is fine, for everyday purposes.

HOWEVER. it is an INCREDIBLY steep learning curve to go from python to, say, java. i know this because i have walked MANY people through it, and they inevitably say, "but why do i have to say the type? python doesn't make me do that!"

no, it doesn't. nothing wrong with that. but -- there's a REASON why strongly typed languages have value, there's a reason people still use java and so on.

python is a scripting language. it is good at that. i want it to continue doing that.

but it is NOT the only language, and not everyone is going to use it as their primary language, and it saves everyone a lot of time and effort to learn something else first.

i do think people should learn java: i get that it is a steep learning curve. i don't think i'm objectively right here, i think i am a grouchy old man. i usually point people to ruby, because i have a lot of affection for it. my first program that i wrote and designed and was proud of was an implementation of the stable marriage algorithm, and it was in ruby.

anyway, i do think people should learn java, because you know what. it's pretty hard to learn java and not have a general idea of what a class is. you might not know the specifics, but you HAVE to make a class. okay, you say. a class is a thing that bundles everything else together and returns a thing.

(ig by pretty hard i mean "if you learn java at a level beyond 'hello world,'" which is kind of what i've been assuming. for the purposes of hello world, any language will do.)

now -- java is pretty annoying if you, say, want to make something. it's not a scripting language. and that's why i say i am a grouchy old man and i don't actually recommend that to people, even though i think it's true.

but.

learning python first -- especially in younger learners -- creates a problem where they don't really. everything is easy, why should it be hard?

well, python is slow, can have version issues, can take up a lot of space, doesn't really have privacy, etc.

but matthew, i don't CARE about all that.

well, that's fine. you don't have to. maybe it won't matter for you. but for someone, they're going to learn python, and then they're going to look at what people use in their field, and learn,

oh, i have to use brackets around functions

and i say that as a catch-all for problems from python. i mostly know what the python -> java problems are, and the brackets thing gets to me because -- why would you NOT want brackets around a function?

and at the end of the day, all of that is surmountable. but.

what is bothering me, what is sticking with me, what lead to me writing up this incoherent rant, is that -- people aren't learning to code just for data science.

you know how there's a lot of 'not everyone is going to do stem!!" stuff? or not as much as there should be but. y'know.

okay so like BASICALLY what i'm saying is that not everyone is going to do data science. and i think like. critically. it just bothers me that...

you know it's great that programming is so accessible now. i love that. i love that only like. less than 10 years after i had to scramble for anything that would even tell me what language to learn (C++ which means YEAH i did all THAT nonsense syntax (it's really not that bad tbh but it's annoying as hell when you're in FIFTH GRADE and just want to make a random number generator disguised as a game) so no one is allowed to say "java is too hard" to me because i was like eleven years old and i figured that shit out with only myself and a search engine), kids are learning to program.

i love that, i really, really do.

but like -- someone has to program the tools they use. someone has to make scratch and games and the internet and databases and...

i am glad that programming is so easy. i am really, really happy that jupyter notebook exists because it didn't* when i started and WOW is it cool.

* it did but not as jupyter notebook and from what i can tell it wasn't until ca. 2015 that it started to really take off.

like that is COOL AS HELL. jupyter notebook is fantastic and a really fun environment to mess around with. so much fun. i love it.

BUT like? programming is not JUST a tool in some sense. i don't know. i'm overextending myself now because this isn't really something i can speak authoritatively about but.

i think it's just the implication that its core value is in this one thing. i guess. something which like. i dunno, i feel like...i can sort people my age into "i was a kid and i wanted to make computers do things" and "i was a [usually somewhat older] kid and i wanted to do a thing that meant i had to learn to program"

both are valid.

but i dunno sometimes i think. if python was what i was first exposed to i would never have seen the Art behind things. this is a tool to do a thing, i would have decided. i did a thing.

and you know i don't know. maybe i'm way out of my lane here. but. game programming still uses c++ mostly afaik. because it's fast, mostly, if i understand. math uses mostly functional programming, especially lisp. javascript is still pretty big and while i've no evidence to back this up, python -> javascript feels like a recipe for disaster.

and these are all...like, jupyter has an interface that runs on javascript. like you do NOT have to go far to find out what i'm talking about here. if you start to want to do more complex things with the internet, you start to want to use sql and so on. it is NOT hard to push past the limits of what is...

and people are probably going to be thinking python can fill all of these roles but actually it's good to want to use the right tool.

"you know so many languages" people say. no i don't. i am reasonably confident in my ability to code something in ruby to fill a quick script. i could do the same in java if i had a lil more time. i do python more than i want and i grumble about it every damn time. i've coded in lua, scheme, c++, a weird variant of java that requires you to pour through very terribly organized documentation and pray you are doing the right thing, php, mathematica (technically not a language but), matlab, and lord knows what else.

because you know i use the Tool for the job.

and that's. it's fine to. i don't know.

anyway i hate python and i want people to not assume that most people who want to program want to do it purely to serve data science.

okay bye.

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If you really want to mess with your Taskbar, try Taskbar Tweaker.

ShellEx View - Your Explorer's right click menu is cluttered, this can help you unclutter it!

OneCommander and Midnight Commander and Altap Salamander - As a long time Norton Commander user (google that!) there's a lot of great "reimaginings" of the Windows File Explorer. OneCommander and Altap Salamander does that, and Midnight Commander does it for the command line/CLI.

WinDirStat - A classic but still essential. What's taking up all that space? Spoiler - It's Call of Duty.

Also try SpaceSniffer!

FileSeek and Everything - Search it all, instantly!

I like Win+Share+S for Screenshots but also check out ShareX, Greenshot, and Lightshot

For animated Gifs, try screen2gif or LICEcap!

Alt-Tab Terminator - Takes your Alt-Tab to the next level with massive previews and search

PureText - PureText pastes plain text, purely, plainly. Free and glorious. Thanks Steve Miller

I still FTP and SCP and SFTP and I use WinSCP to do it! It's free or just $10 to get it from the Windows Store and support the author!

VLC Player - The best and still the best. Plays everything, everywhere.

PSReadline - Makes PowerShell more Bashy in the best way.

Yori and all Malcolm Smith's Utilities - Yori is a reimagning of cmd.exe!

Visual Studio Code Extensions

"I use the negativity to fuel the transformation into a better me." – Beyoncé

There's a million great Visual Studio Extensions. The ones I like won't be the that ones you like. But, go explore.

GitLens - Glorious. Just makes Git and VS a joy and adds a thousand tiny lovely features that will make you smile. You'll wonder why this isn't built in.

Version Lens - Do you have the latest package versions? Now you know

CodeSnap - Screenshots specifically tailored to make your code look nice.

.NET Core Test Explorer - Makes unit testing with .NET on VS Code so much nicer

Arduino for VS Code - The Arduino extension makes it easy to develop, build, deploy and debug your Arduino sketches in Visual Studio Code! So nice.

Coverage Gutters - This amazing extension highlights what code is covered with Unit Test and what's not. Ryan is looking for help, so go see if this is a great OSS project YOU can get started with!

Docker for VS Code - Container explorer and manager and deployer, directly from VS

GitHistory - Another nice add-on for Git that shows your Git Log

HexDump - I need this more than I would like to admit

LiveShare - Stop screen-sharing and start code and context sharing!

PowerShell for VS - A great replacement for the PowerShell ISE

Remote Containers - This is an AMAZING EXTENSION you have to try if you have Docker but it has a horrible non-descriptive name. But must be seen to be believed. Perhaps it's "Visual Studio Development Containers," I'm not sure. Open a folder and attach to a development container. No installs, just you debugging Rust, Go, C#, whatever whilst installing NOTHING. Amazing.

Remote SSH - Another in the VS Remote Family of Extensions, this one lets you use any remote SSH Server as your development environment.

Remote WSL - Edit and debug and build code from Windows...using Linux!

And finally, Yoncé, my current VS Code theme. Beyoncé inspired.

Things I enjoy

“We all have our purpose, we all have our strengths.” – Beyoncé

RescueTime - Are you productive? Are you spending time on what you need to be spending time on? RescueTime keeps track of what you are doing and tells you just that with fantastic reports. Very good stuff if you're trying to GTD and TCB. ;

Carnac - This wonderful little open source utility shows the hotkey's you're pressing as you press them, showing up as little overlays in the corner. I use it during coding presentations.

DOSBox - When you're off floating in 64-bit super-Windows-10-Pro land, sometimes you forget that there ARE some old programs you can't run anymore now that DOS isn't really there. Enter DOSBox, an x86 DOS Emulator! Whew, now I can play Bard's Tale from 1988 on Windows 10 in 2021! Check out Gog.com for lots of DOSBox powered classics

Oh yes, and finally Windows Sandbox - You already have this and didn't even know it! You can fire up in SECONDS a copy of your Windows 10 machine in a safe sandbox and when you close it, it's gone. Poof. Great for testing weird tools and utilities that some rando on a blog asks you to download.

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Scott Hanselman's 2021 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows published first on https://deskbysnafu.tumblr.com/

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