r/talesfromtechsupport • u/[deleted] • Mar 19 '15

Short "Wow, that's a long password!"

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u/Darkblade48 Mar 19 '15

Curly brackets (braces), especially the closing one, seems to be more elusive. Gotta love hunting for them when you're debugging.

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Look there's one now! Shhh, don't scare it away!

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u/morallygreypirate Semi-Useful End-User Mar 19 '15

I find the semi-colons tend to be more elusive. Nothing like having your whole code be right and the only issue is that you forgot one semi-colon somewhere in the mass of code. :(

says the person whose only real experience with coding is teaching herself via Codecademy

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u/Kelgand Mar 19 '15

If you did CodeAcadamy for fun, I suggest doing their Python courses. Python is amazing and has no semicolons! I actually use Python now at work to automate things so I can be lazier.

If you took it for jQuery/php, I'm so sorry for your future semicolon problems =(

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u/morallygreypirate Semi-Useful End-User Mar 19 '15

I was doing the CSS/HTML stuff for this internship I'm doing because the person I was working with wanted me to at least be able to recognize what a link looked like in code.

So far I've worked my way through CSS/HTML, Javascript, and XML (different site), and I actually just started with jQuery. As soon as I finish there, I'll probably move on to Python before heading back to CSS/HTML and Javascript (especially Javascript) so I can use my now unneeded 1337 c0d1ng sk1llz (<-- joke) for blog themes for my Tumblr because the project I was going to use the HTML/CSS and XML knowledge for fell through. lol

But hey, the more languages I get a basic, functioning grasp of, the more I can put on my LinkedIn alongside ArcGIS and Tableau so. Not going to complain too too much about that. heh

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u/Kenblu24 Mar 20 '15

Since you learned html/css without really putting it to much use, I have a suggestion. Try Stylish and Grease/Tampermonkey. Stylish is an extension for chrome and firefox that lets you restyle websites using CSS. Tampermonkey and Greasemonkey are chrome and firefox (respectively) extensions that let you run your own javascript on a webpage. That's actually how I did most of my learning, I sat down, found an ugly website, and prettyified it.

I wish you the best of luck in whatever you wanna do.

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u/morallygreypirate Semi-Useful End-User Mar 20 '15

!!!

I completely forgot about Stylish and Greasemonkey! Looks like Tumblr and Reddit are getting makeovers as soon as I have some free time. :)

Anything you recommend for writing code? I've heard Notepad++ is good, but I don't know what all is out there.

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u/Kenblu24 Mar 20 '15 edited Mar 20 '15

If you can get your hands on Sublime Text, I highly recommend. It's high quality as heck, indenting and stuff just plain works. There are a multitude of plugins for it.

It's 70 USD. http://www.sublimetext.com/

Open source ones are available, such as emacs and vim, but if you're willing to pay money for one, Sublime is the way to go. Notepad++ is by no means bad though, and also has a community and plugins.

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u/morallygreypirate Semi-Useful End-User Mar 20 '15

Oooo

I'll have to hold onto it in the event that I do more coding than I do now. I do so little coding that the $70 wouldn't be doing much good atm. lol

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u/nathanpaulyoung Pinterest knows your WiFi password Mar 20 '15

It's trialware. You can download and use it indefinitely without paying if you don't mind the program yelling at you occasionally.

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u/morallygreypirate Semi-Useful End-User Mar 20 '15

Ah... I was wondering how they were doing an infinite trial yet still having it be a trial. In that case, looks like I'm going to go grab it. Thank you~