get into livecoding if you're a musician, get your musician friends into it if you aren't.
Make a stripped down C/ncurses version of any small browser game you like.
I would also suggest making a game, especially if you're a more creative/visual-type person. What I found really fun was downloading some free or low-price pixel art packs and just dropping them in Unity, having fun making scenes with them, and then coding a small game around them. It's good chill times.
https://itch.io/game-assets/free/tag-pixel-artIf you wanted to code something more standalone without needing a huge framework, maybe look into using the ChatGPT API for some project, it's very easy to use. An example could be like…. making a browser extension to highlight some text and having ChatGPT spit out a re-phrasing of that text. Or whatever you wanna do.
Write a program that randomly generates word soup to tell you what type of program to write.
I've considered reverse enginering something specific but no idea if it's beginner friendly.
>>18851What language is good for live coding? I tried to compose using C Sound once years back and gave up pretty quickly because it was hard to think of music that way.
>>18854>Write a program that randomly generates word soup to tell you what type of program to writeThose programs are really fun. Mine tells me to unlease a concurrent webasm runaway filesystem watchdog.
>What language is good for live coding?There is extempore if you don't mind lisp.
https://extemporelang.github.io/
Find another hobby, and figure out how to program something for it
write and imageboard and drop it in the nu-imageboard thread
>>18854>What language is good for live coding? I tried to compose using C Sound once years back and gave up pretty quickly because it was hard to think of music that way.start out with using something like TidalCycles (Haskell EDSL), using your computer as a fancy sampler/sequencer. What it does is arrange patterns, and its fairly natural for rhythmic electronic music.
>>18848You could try finding an open source project you like and contributing. Or maybe you could make a clone of something you like.
>>18907I don't know how people find projects to contribute to. I fixed some small bugs a few times but that's all.
>>18848Don't be a programmer, Programming is for weak little republicards and you should do something genuinely beneficial instead. Start lifting, Eat more meat, Eat eggs. Drink milk. Improve yourself. Obtain your inner energies. Stop being a rightoid. Make this change in your life, and you will realize that programming is a false goal. Do this, Not computers, It will help.>>18849
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>>18848>>18849>>18851>>18852>>18853>>18854>>18855>>18856>>18857>>18865>>18907>>19098>>19103you guys the problem isnt that you dont know what to write it's that you need to learn C before you can program.
If you don't learn C, then how are you supposed to program anything? Guys, don't program until you learn C. You're welcome:)
>>19104I know C and have used it professionally.
>>19105well thats a you problem, how are you supposed to program with C if you don't intend on programming? you don't learn a new language without a purpose lol are you stuipd?
>>19106tbf to OP, a lot of people get taught programming languages at school just because of the insane nerd-parent cargo-cultism around them
"If little timmy can program, he'll totally be intellectually superior to his peers"
use curl and scraping web
I miss having fun programming.
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Write a program that writes programs
>>19143>He got a job writing codelol. lmao. you fool.
Why didn't not you just get a normal job instead? I like writing code too and this obviously played in to why i did not get a job writing code and continued to be a labourer instead.
>>18853>I would also suggest making a game,That is a lot from scratch anon, I would suggest, and something that helped me, is to just take an open source game you like (nethack, cataclysm:Dark Days Ahead, LCS or any other of the bay12 games, etc) and work on that, giving features you personally like.
>>21431Well it isn't like labouring pays badly, and it gives you the opportunity to go in to many well paid trades, just as my example and a very accessible one.
What does the potential mega-money of some coding jobs matter anyway when you cannot have time or the mental health to spend it?
>>18848When in doubt, make a calculator for something.
>>21434how about you program yourself a gf
>>21445I've tried for the fun of it years ago with various ai software and coding, but I realized it was a stupid thing to do when, as much as Cameron was a teen crush, I ought to live in reality and not a fantasy. The experience did give me a pretty thorough understanding of how difficult AI is and how important creating a friendly AI is to prevent a Skynet situation. No amount of rules in programming matter because if you teach an AI to be truly sentient, it will learn to break those rules.
>>21443Like what? Fahrenheit to Celsius?
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