Derick Florian (he/him) @derickflorian@qoto.org

@Cleoqc I didn’t know about it until now but I lost today. It was a huge own goal because I typed in 80s Christmas music and hit play.

#Whamageddon

@HaelusNovak@mastodon.lol Thank you, I will take all the luck I can get! I am taking it next Friday so I’m just going to review a little bit each day!

Going to call it a night. Didn’t finish day 2’s advent of code challenge, but did study for my calc final.

So for I’m really liking my approach and it’s giving me practice using header files and taking command line arguments.

I’m going to take advantage of the fact that alphabetical characters correspond to a number in C which should allow me to subtract the beginning of the possible moves from the move played to get the score for that move.

So I’m thinking ‘A’ - ‘A’ will be 0. Then I can just add 1 to get the “value” of that move. 1 for rock, 2 for paper, 3 for scissors. You can do the same thing for X, Y and Z if you have the beginning of the move set be X, then ‘Z’ - ‘X’ would equal 2 and then add 1 to get 3.

@dev_Paul yeah, one advent is definitely enough! Hopefully now I shook off all of the dust last night and tonight will be a lot of learning but moving a little faster.

@engelbart Nice choice of language! I am writing clumsy code in another language so I have the same hope that I will get some helpful feedback once I post it!

@PHolder @cmdevans I think Python is a good starting language. It’s very encouraging for a complete beginner because you can become productive faster.

Even though my company primarily requires C/C++, Python is listed as a preferred skill. It helps with gluing things together even if it’s not the primary language used in a project. Also Python can be used as a main language for many different areas, from web, to data science and there is ability to use it in embedded somewhat.

I agree with Java being extremely important and also I really like Kotlin.