Just a kid with a computer here. I am familiar and have reached a reasonable level of fluency with javascript and python, with typescript being a somewhat satisfying switch I made.

It’s been 4 years, I haven’t touched another language. I wanna study something future proof and genuinely helpful. The reason I never went beyond js and py was because I already had everything I needed, I could make anything I wanted. I really want to dip my toes in the strong programming waters.

Can you suggest a language?

  • @dhruvOP
    1•1 year ago

    I took a look at it. The syntax looks scary and there’s tons of words that seem simply alien. Any idea where I should start from? I haven’t toyed with programming at a level this low.

    • @[email protected]
      2•1 year ago

      the three letter combinations actually are acronyms or diminutives for all the normal syntax of a programming languages, if you have a cheat sheet and study a bit everyday it greatly helps. Remember that each processor has its own language also.

    • @[email protected]
      2•1 year ago

      There is this excellent video which shows how a simple C program looks in assembly (don’t worry about it being C, the program is simple enough to be understood without C knowledge). There’s also this which does what the video shows automatically for you. Neither of these are fully sufficient to understand assembly but they are still incredibly useful resources.

      Also: watch out for AT&T syntax vs Intel syntax if you’re doing x86. It took me way to long to figure this out. And as another commenter mentioned look at TIS-100, but also some other similar games (sorted from easiest to hardest, TIS being harder than all of these): Human resource machine, EXAPUNKS, Shezhen I/O, and Box-256

      • @dhruvOP
        2•1 year ago

        I’ll add it to my watchlist for next month. I wanna get started with it once I’ve tried out rust.

        And I’ve played quite a bit of Shenzen-IO actually. I have a full paper book labelled and marked haha. I even made little notes to remind me how to make loops and little hacks. That’s one reason I’m considering getting into real assembly, I hope it’ll be as fun.

        I’ve come across TIS-100. Looking at the steam store images made me give up before even trying haha. I wonder if it’ll torture me like Shenzhen or be a nice tutorial.

        Didn’t know about the AT&T / Intel thing. Thanks!

      • @dhruvOP
        2•1 year ago

        Just skimmed through one. He explains it quite well. I’ll save the links to try and learn it sometime next month. Thank you!