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what is a skill you wish you had, and why? (feddit.nl)

submitted 9 months ago by neidu@feddit.nl to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Ok, I might as well go first: I wish I could draw. Not at the level where I could make photorealistic portraits, but I've always been envious of those who are able to scetch something together in a few minutes that perfectly captures what they want to convey. Sometimes words aren't enough to express what I want to say, and for those situations I would love to have a simple drawing do the talking for me.

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[–] ganoo@sh.itjust.works 9 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Programming. I understand it as a concept, but have no ability to sit down and write code.

[–] neidu@feddit.nl 10 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I'm a hobbyist programmer myself. I've picked up a few languages along the way, and by far the best approach I have found to learning is a simple but real practical use case. Find the smallest task you want your program to do, break it down into even smaller subsections, and then start to figure out how to transform it into code. It usually takes less code and knowledge about a language than you think.

[–] Ethalis@jlai.lu 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

A few years back I got really into Python for a few months as a complete newbie. One day, when I felt ready, I told myself I would put all the python skills I picked up and build a small program that would generate random, solvable sudoko puzzles. After a few weeks trying everything and not getting anywhere, I gave up programming.

Moral of the story is I probably that I should have taken it a bit slower I guess

[–] CapeWearingAeroplane@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 months ago

To be fair, I'm a decent programmer: I spend a significant portion of my workdays programming all kinds of things. Writing a program to generate sudoku's with a unique solution, without copy pasting a bunch of algorithms, but actually making it all up yourself definitely sounds non-trivial to me.

(Read: That sounds like a really hard beginner project, and you should be proud for even trying, and you shouldn't give up :) )

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