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Is there anyone interested in doing a group where we learn to code together? Using mostly free resources? And work on a common project, perhaps? Programming language is open for discussion.
#practicecoding

Gibt es Menschen die Interesse hätten an einer Gruppe, in der wir Programmieren lernen? Dabei v.a. freie Ressourcen nutzen? Und vll. an einem gemeinsamen projekt arbeiten? Programmiersprache ist noch offen. #practicecoding

Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 @ekaitz_zarraga

@TQ I can code so I guess I'm out of that call, but I can help finding resources and answering questions.

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@ekaitz_zarraga That is great! Do you have thoughts or recommendations about a project we could do together, as a group? And are there languages you would recommend?

@TQ It depends on what you want to learn.

Python is cool to start.

You can make... I don't know... a Mastodon bot?
It depends in your interests, I make simple scripts for myself, they are easy to do, but they are command line tools for my geek stuff. Maybe that's not very attractive for you.

@ekaitz_zarraga A bot, why not! I don't decide that on my own, obviously, so I'll propose that to the group that's about to form. :)
Thanks!

@TQ It's not the easiest job but It's fun and it will keep you motivated :D

@ekaitz_zarraga @TQ this is what most of my coding involves TBH, any graphics goes as far as ANSI colours :😁

But I think its important to start with this *first*, otherwise new coders could feel overwhelmed with trying to deal with GUI libraries, web servers etc. Especially if folk are on mixture of Windows, Linux and Mac desktops/laptops which is likely to happen!

@vfrmedia @TQ The good thing of python is handling libraries is quite easy.

I agree with you. Scripts are the best to make to avoid all the graphics, web and such, bit it's difficult to motivate people to make a script. :D

@ekaitz_zarraga @TQ

There is a big "retro" trend amongst younger generations today, you can still get pretty colours/graphics (including 256 colours) with ANSI art, and Python can of course be used to generate basic (and more advanced) HTML content (although I haven't even advanced that far myself!)

@vfrmedia @TQ Look, I made a Mosaic generator in python in the past. It could be also a good idea.

Some image creation :D