New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Where to go after learning "beginner" CS like coding?
Ask HN: Where to go after learning "beginner" CS like coding?
4 by MarioCircuit | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Hello all, I'm a high school senior and a longtime lurker. You can guess by my presence here that I'm interested in all things CS, as a hobby if not necessarily a profession, but I've got no idea what to actually do with that interest. I've done all the "beginner" stuff like learning Java/Python, making scripts and projects for my own computer, trying archlinux on a VM. I've taken all the CS courses at my school (they're frustratingly shallow) and I just don't know how to go from playing with my own glorified "Hello World" scripts in noob world to actually making projects people use, seriously tinkering with my computer, etc. Seeing that post from a week or so back about the 16 year old self-hosting with their own servers was kind of my wakeup call. While I've been twiddling my thumbs dreaming of doing something like that, sort of justifying it with the mentality of "I'll just wait until I'm older", they actually went and did it in the exact same few years I'd had (if you're reading this, btw, you're my hero and congrats on the achievements!) I'd like to actually make progress that feels meaningful, but I'm not really good at finding out how to do that and more often than not I end up wasting time. What resources/forums/communities, literally anything really, would you all recommend for me to take a look at; or what would you all recommend for me to learn/do next? Stuff about basically any CS-related, computer-related, etc. topic would be appreciated! I'd really value advice from people like you all, who've gotten past this level already, on how to go past it. Thank you all and have a great day! :)
4 by MarioCircuit | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Hello all, I'm a high school senior and a longtime lurker. You can guess by my presence here that I'm interested in all things CS, as a hobby if not necessarily a profession, but I've got no idea what to actually do with that interest. I've done all the "beginner" stuff like learning Java/Python, making scripts and projects for my own computer, trying archlinux on a VM. I've taken all the CS courses at my school (they're frustratingly shallow) and I just don't know how to go from playing with my own glorified "Hello World" scripts in noob world to actually making projects people use, seriously tinkering with my computer, etc. Seeing that post from a week or so back about the 16 year old self-hosting with their own servers was kind of my wakeup call. While I've been twiddling my thumbs dreaming of doing something like that, sort of justifying it with the mentality of "I'll just wait until I'm older", they actually went and did it in the exact same few years I'd had (if you're reading this, btw, you're my hero and congrats on the achievements!) I'd like to actually make progress that feels meaningful, but I'm not really good at finding out how to do that and more often than not I end up wasting time. What resources/forums/communities, literally anything really, would you all recommend for me to take a look at; or what would you all recommend for me to learn/do next? Stuff about basically any CS-related, computer-related, etc. topic would be appreciated! I'd really value advice from people like you all, who've gotten past this level already, on how to go past it. Thank you all and have a great day! :)
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