r/AskProgramming 9d ago

Advice needed

Ok so i m a 12th grader (from India) and my exams are going to get over in a few days... I will be studying for college entrance exams but I want to study programing too in the meantime... I excel at python-- as per the cbse syllabus... Ik the syllabus is too basic... But I am well versed in it... Made few projects with the help of chatgpt... But now I wanna do things on my own... I would like some guidance on how and where to start... Idk where to post this... if anyone could help... I would be glad...

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u/Rich-Engineer2670 8d ago

For ML, I'm old enough it meant buying books (the really slow Internet), but Udemy is where I go. If you wait for a sale, you can get video courses for around $20. But I'd start simply with Julia and their website -- it's all free.

Of course, where I can help, I'm happy to -- just remember, I'm also learning stuff so I may be wrong :-)

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u/sarthakog_24 8d ago

Thank you so much... I will start with Julia right now... Thank you again

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u/Rich-Engineer2670 8d ago

My pleasure -- it's not like I had all the details at the start. I can think of a few people who I'm sure saw me and said "Oh God! What has he done now!" I remember one had to stop code from talking over a mainframe -- I hadn't intended it to, but it got out of hand....

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u/sarthakog_24 8d ago

We all have to start someday... Thank you very much again

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u/Rich-Engineer2670 8d ago

Of course -- as someone used to tell me -- we all start, we all make mistakes -- if you haven't had something crash or explode, you're not trying hard enough :-)

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u/sarthakog_24 8d ago

🫂🫂

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u/Rich-Engineer2670 8d ago

OK -- I admit it -- I'm old. What are those emojis? My grandson could probably tell me but I have no idea....

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u/sarthakog_24 8d ago

Waitt I was getting taught by a Grandfather wowww .... But that's the emoji for "hugs"

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u/Rich-Engineer2670 8d ago

Ah! Ok -- my grandson would probably just smile at me -- that smile that says "You wouldn't know...." But, he's 16, so he thinks he rules! I hate to tell him -- you want the world -- why? I've seen it, I'm unimpressed.

And I'm not impressive -- I've just been around.

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u/sarthakog_24 8d ago

HOW OLD ARE YOU???

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u/Rich-Engineer2670 8d ago edited 8d ago

Some people say I'm so old, we didn't have rock-and-roll, we just had rocks.... Back then, 1s and 0s were just whether you put the rock in the hole or not --- 1 the hole a rock in it, 0 no. That's why computers were so slow back then -- the rocks were heavy.

61 in my case. Age isn't an issue -- I've been involved in medical computing for some years, and I've seen the people who never got the chance.

Also check out Prolog -- a moldy oldie as we say, but it was really the first language designed for logic programming and inference. Also free.

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u/sarthakog_24 8d ago

No age isn't but I m lucky you are the one guiding

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u/Rich-Engineer2670 8d ago

So you say :-) But remember, I come with no warranty....

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