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AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

The OS won’t matter much in the beginning, though it helps that you’re already using Linux as you likely already have Python and GCC on it. I’d suggest you go through Harvard’s CS50 if you’ve never been exposed to computer science before: …harvard.edu/…/cs50-introduction-computer-science . You can audit it for free, you don’t really need to pay for the certificate (which IMO doesn’t have much value at that level anyway).

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Darkrai@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I also liked Harvards course. I got to like chapter 8 then I switched to start learning Rust because I liked it more than Python.

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pkill@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I don’t think you need a better PC

This will hold true as long as OP doesn’t trash his IDE’s performance with too many plugins where even smaller project might run into performance issues if this mistake is made. But it doesn’t mean OP has to distract themselves with learning a modal TUI editor, although it’ll probably be beneficial for their productivity if they persevere and better to do that early than waste time hopping IDEs just for the sake of it. Tip for staying somewhat flexible if you still haven’t decided yet is adding vim plugin to vscode.

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