It’s High Time I Dip My Toes Into Rust

Upon actually working with excel, I’m done being pretentious about how it’s not programming. Tremendous respect goes to anyone who can do things with excel. 

For those of you who are worried about AI taking over the world, this is the sentence produced by a “neural network” (a fancy name for my relative frequency matrix) after I had it read Beowulf, Galen, Guinea, Little Women, Mansfield Park, Peter Pan, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, A Tale of Two Cities, and The Call of the Wild. (All are freely available on Project Gutenberg in many filetypes including plain text, btw).

You can change your font and you can change your float

You can set margins, that’s just the style you wrote

You can { display: none; } and you can overflow

But you’ll always google how to center a <div>.

Psh prolog more like amatuerlog

Now that I have a degree in computer science, I will insist that I am a scientist and must wear a lab coat and goggles while I work as a software developer.

Mainstream

Has anyone else avoided a programming language because it’s “too mainstream” for them? 

Big things are happening, people. Teammates are frequently coming to me for help on their projects.

Do I always know the answers to their questions? Absolutely not. But they THINK I know the answers. Which actually means more, if you don’t think about it.

Does anyone read programming books? Like actually?

Keeping them on a shelf having skimmed the table of contents doesn’t count.

Console.WriteLine(”Not Bad”);

Alright so I find myself liking C# and the .NET framework. For anyone who hasn’t delved into understanding what it is and WHY it is: .NET is, like all other frameworks, a collection of tools for developers. Except this one is on steroids, and tailored to Windows BY Microsoft, meaning you can make awesome Windows applications without tracking down everything you need. It’s all just right there. 

C# is basically C++ with all of the .NET adapters actively available. You can also think of it like Java but instead of running inside of the JVM, it runs on Windows. 

Microsoft’s documentation is also really well-written for it, which is nice.

BONUS in case anyone is curious: ASP.NET is a framework that extends the overarching .NET to provide tools specifically for web application dev. I haven’t gotten far into the ASP documentation yet so I can’t say much about it other than that.

CSS art terrifies me to the point that I don’t even have the courage to try it. Tremendous respect to people who can make it.

I don’t want to come off negative… but you know how these things go.