Re: What are your hobbies?
Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 4:30 pm
A place to love and accept the people who think about and live Mormonism on their own terms.
https://newordermormon.net/
I'm quite intrigued by this one!
Wow! I'm not the only adult that plays Minecraft! I also have a RoBlox account too. I play with my DD.
I share many of these. Grew up on video games but have largely stopped playing, primarily due to school. Also, kids got better than me and took the fun out of playing.Enoch Witty wrote: ↑Thu May 17, 2018 5:39 am
- Computer programming/web design -- looking for coding buddies/mentors/mentees if anyone's into it
- Live music (wife and I are going to every show we can this year -- so much fun!)
- PS4 (just got platinums on Nioh and Horizon: Zero Dawn; long-time hardcore Dark Souls fan)
- Mobile games (Clash of Clans and Clash Royale mostly for the last 18 months or so)
- Board/card games -- before my autistic toddler made it impossible to sit down and play. I still like the idea of these, though.
- Podcasts -- comedy/political/educational/computer programming/gaming/and exactly zero Mormon-related ones are on my subscription list at this point.
- TV -- wife and I like to binge watch various comedies and dramas. Currently watching Veep. Favorite of all time is Parks and Rec.
- Music -- got Spotify last year, loving discovering all the new bands. Used to love singer-songwriter stuff and classic rock mostly, but I'm really into indie pop these days.
- Reddit -- I spend more time browsing than I should. I still follow r/exmormon, but I don't spend most of my Redditing time there anymore.
Congrats on the MBA! Let me know if you ever want to talk code. After learning the basics in C++, I've written a few Python scripts to help me with my job and am currently using Django to build a website dedicated to the local music scene. Just in the last 30 days alone I've gone from being fairly mystified by web design to feeling like I'm really getting a handle on it and like being a full-stack developer is within my reach.IT_Veteran wrote: ↑Thu May 17, 2018 9:45 amAs for the programming/web design thing - it's something I'm trying to get back into. I have an associates in CS and work in IT full time. I love writing code, I used to be fairly decent at it (at the junior college level anyway) and just haven't had time to keep up with it over the years. Graduating with an MBA this weekend, so I'm hoping to spend more time on coding now that school is done for a while.Enoch Witty wrote: ↑Thu May 17, 2018 5:39 am
- Computer programming/web design -- looking for coding buddies/mentors/mentees if anyone's into it
- Live music (wife and I are going to every show we can this year -- so much fun!)
- PS4 (just got platinums on Nioh and Horizon: Zero Dawn; long-time hardcore Dark Souls fan)
- Mobile games (Clash of Clans and Clash Royale mostly for the last 18 months or so)
- Board/card games -- before my autistic toddler made it impossible to sit down and play. I still like the idea of these, though.
- Podcasts -- comedy/political/educational/computer programming/gaming/and exactly zero Mormon-related ones are on my subscription list at this point.
- TV -- wife and I like to binge watch various comedies and dramas. Currently watching Veep. Favorite of all time is Parks and Rec.
- Music -- got Spotify last year, loving discovering all the new bands. Used to love singer-songwriter stuff and classic rock mostly, but I'm really into indie pop these days.
- Reddit -- I spend more time browsing than I should. I still follow r/exmormon, but I don't spend most of my Redditing time there anymore.
Thanks! Almost all of my coursework was in C++, I've taken several classes on Java and started going through a Udemy course on Java 9, it just keeps getting pushed to the back burner when I run out of time.Enoch Witty wrote: ↑Thu May 17, 2018 10:04 amCongrats on the MBA! Let me know if you ever want to talk code. After learning the basics in C++, I've written a few Python scripts to help me with my job and am currently using Django to build a website dedicated to the local music scene. Just in the last 30 days alone I've gone from being fairly mystified by web design to feeling like I'm really getting a handle on it and like being a full-stack developer is within my reach.
I transitioned to Python from C++ really easily just by going through the free Codecademy tutorial. It's definitely worth a shot. I enjoyed C++, but I absolutely love Python. It's got a great community and tons of open-source packages. It lets you focus more on the logic rather than getting hung up on syntax, at least most of the time. And once you have a decent handle on Python, Django is a great framework to learn web design with.IT_Veteran wrote: ↑Thu May 17, 2018 10:09 amThanks! Almost all of my coursework was in C++, I've taken several classes on Java and started going through a Udemy course on Java 9, it just keeps getting pushed to the back burner when I run out of time.
I've done a little bit of web development. I can read it, but I am just not design-minded when it comes to that stuff. I can take a template and tweak it, generally, but haven't learned any JS, Python, or even PHP yet.
I have a database project coming up for some side work. The proof of concept will just use MS Access to read/write from a SQL backend, but I'd really like to get an actual web interface built for it to make it more scalable once the PoC is figured out.
If you have some Java, you owe it to yourself to take a peek at Kotlin, its Java's successor and what Java should have been.IT_Veteran wrote: ↑Thu May 17, 2018 10:09 amI've taken several classes on Java and started going through a Udemy course on Java 9
I started with Ruby, Perl, and Java, but I do mostly C, C++, and x86 assembly these days.Enoch Witty wrote: ↑Mon May 14, 2018 2:26 pmWhat do you write in? I've moved to mostly Python, just recently learning web design using the Django framework. Super fun stuff. Something has clicked with CSS recently. JavaScripts...not so much.
Sounds like you like to be in control! Ruby interested me most of those I admit, although I enjoyed learning the basics of programming in C++.LSOF wrote: ↑Thu May 17, 2018 11:21 pmI started with Ruby, Perl, and Java, but I do mostly C, C++, and x86 assembly these days.Enoch Witty wrote: ↑Mon May 14, 2018 2:26 pmWhat do you write in? I've moved to mostly Python, just recently learning web design using the Django framework. Super fun stuff. Something has clicked with CSS recently. JavaScripts...not so much.