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Deleted-401606 · Dec 4, 2016

Flame said:
so is coding a science or an art.

by which i mean can you be beaten in to learn how to code..

or born with it?

Coding is like learning math,it's a tool. So it could be art,or it could just be coding. People that are intelligent usually can pick it up relatively quick.

astrangeone · Dec 4, 2016

Time and motivation. I learned a bit of basic shit in high school and then just got really tired of the stuff and the comments on my gender/female bits when coding. Didn't help that the rest of the girls in my class did not want to learn and copied entire programs to get through the class, just modifying the variables and other stuff to get through. Interestingly, the teacher never really caught us doing that.

RevPokemon · Dec 4, 2016

First off I have learned a tiny bit of HTML from my time running a website but I have forgotten a lot of it. I guess for me the reason is the larger thing I am learning about is anonymity and the internet such as the structure of I2P or Tor which is more interesting to me. Although I really do want to learn Java.

proflayton123 · Dec 4, 2016

I've compiled a far few things from source.. Which I was quite proud of :v nothing of my own work though. Still a start, right?

Deleted User · Dec 4, 2016

Well, I know how to code actually. Very little. I could make a little text program in python....

Deleted-379826 · Dec 4, 2016

Mostly just lack of motivation or not knowing where to start.

CeeDee · Dec 4, 2016

Flame said:
but as a mod on GBAtemp you must have some interest in tech...

He has an interest in moderating, not coding

CitizenSnips · Dec 4, 2016

Not enough time and it can be very difficult to learn sometimes

Jack Daniels · Dec 4, 2016

i'm trying to learn how to code, and i know a bit of old langages, but hell... it is really hard for me to understand what i'm doing wrong...
i'm trying to fork my own port of retropie for my cubietruck-plus (aka cubieboard5) but for some reason it won't see my armv7l/allwinner H8/cortex-a7/powervr544 i don't understand what i do wrong... not that i'm about to give up but i don't know where to look for what it is... it could be gcc or the uname --machine part... either way , i need more info on how it detects what i have and how it works in general... note i that it's my first python/c(++) project... i already got around the OS error (since linaro is about the same as (l)ubuntu...

Deleted member 377734 · Dec 4, 2016

lack of a private pc ( I use a semi-public one)

FAST6191 · Dec 4, 2016

It could probably be argued I know how to code. I am not sure what stops me from working on the ideas that constantly come into my head. Probably that I have things I enjoy doing even more and at this point still enjoy learning stuff more than I enjoy doing stuff for code.

Choice link
https://sgimenez.github.io/laby/

Maluma said:
Most people do not have the intellectual capacity to code.

I reckon it depends what sort of coding.
Anybody can drill a hole in a bit of wood, it is not completely trivial but you can get the necessary stuff fairly quickly. Not everybody knows enough to be a precision machinist though.
By similar token yeah I reckon the amount of people that could truly get to grips with assembly and high performance/secure/crazy mathematical C family stuff is somewhat less than the total population. Hopefully we can avoid getting caught in the Turing complete trap but a number rather more close to said total could probably get some basic operations of their choosing done on numbers (think spreadsheets), fiddle with wildcards and regex, handle some if else stuff and generally do something useful (quicker or more accurate than hand sorting and still done within a timeframe most humans can live with) with current gear, doubly so if a kind of more simplified or complete API set was available (I imagine you and I would hate it and find it limiting but it is what it is).

lcie nimbus said:
lack of a private pc ( I use a semi-public one)

http://portableapps.com/
http://codeblocks.codecutter.org/
https://www.virtualbox.org/ (a portable version also exists)
Any number of livecds exist.

Get it on a USB drive, do it right and none of it will touch the system in question and be as functional as anything you have of your own. Unless you meant your time is limited on it, in which case if you have a phone or tablet there are quite a few things you could be doing on one of those.

SonicCloud · Dec 4, 2016

lack of interest, lack of time, lack of life

The Catboy · Dec 4, 2016

I know how to code, I just don't feel like doing it.

WiiUBricker · Dec 4, 2016

I tried it multiple times, but I quit because of slow progress.

FAST6191 · Dec 4, 2016

WiiUBricker said:
I tried it multiple times, but I quit because of slow progress.

What languages? If something like C or even java and yeah 2 months later and still futzing with command line programs as GUI programming is still so far in the distance you are not even considering it I can see getting to people, go with something like PHP and you might well be at the point you could charge for something for someone. I hate PHP and a lot of what it stands for and is but I have seen it happen on several occasions, hell I am not a great php coder but enough of it is human readable that just knowing what a function is, the general ways things get programmed and following the logic through I can do fairly far reaching and significant changes that people want on their websites.

Deleted member 377734 · Dec 4, 2016

FAST6191 said:
It could probably be argued I know how to code. I am not sure what stops me from working on the ideas that constantly come into my head. Probably that I have things I enjoy doing even more and at this point still enjoy learning stuff more than I enjoy doing stuff for code.

Choice link
https://sgimenez.github.io/laby/

I reckon it depends what sort of coding.
Anybody can drill a hole in a bit of wood, it is not completely trivial but you can get the necessary stuff fairly quickly. Not everybody knows enough to be a precision machinist though.
By similar token yeah I reckon the amount of people that could truly get to grips with assembly and high performance/secure/crazy mathematical C family stuff is somewhat less than the total population. Hopefully we can avoid getting caught in the Turing complete trap but a number rather more close to said total could probably get some basic operations of their choosing done on numbers (think spreadsheets), fiddle with wildcards and regex, handle some if else stuff and generally do something useful (quicker or more accurate than hand sorting and still done within a timeframe most humans can live with) with current gear, doubly so if a kind of more simplified or complete API set was available (I imagine you and I would hate it and find it limiting but it is what it is).

http://portableapps.com/
http://codeblocks.codecutter.org/
https://www.virtualbox.org/ (a portable version also exists)
Any number of livecds exist.

Get it on a USB drive, do it right and none of it will touch the system in question and be as functional as anything you have of your own. Unless you meant your time is limited on it, in which case if you have a phone or tablet there are quite a few things you could be doing on one of those.

hmm I could try it on my phone. guess I might give it a shot

Steve Antony Williams · Dec 4, 2016

I don't particularly want to. I used to write some 6510 and 68000 but lost interest mostly.

VinsCool · Dec 4, 2016

Time and Motivation.

I spend almost all my weektime at work. My free time is spent on, friends, life, videogames, gbatemp, and being drunk, of course.

Hanafuda · Dec 4, 2016

Because people like me pay people like you to do it instead.

/smartass

WiiUBricker · Dec 4, 2016

FAST6191 said:
What languages? If something like C or even java and yeah 2 months later and still futzing with command line programs as GUI programming is still so far in the distance you are not even considering it I can see getting to people, go with something like PHP and you might well be at the point you could charge for something for someone. I hate PHP and a lot of what it stands for and is but I have seen it happen on several occasions, hell I am not a great php coder but enough of it is human readable that just knowing what a function is, the general ways things get programmed and following the logic through I can do fairly far reaching and significant changes that people want on their websites.

I think I first tried C almost a decade ago. I even bought a book. But at that time I was studying something else so I had to use my free time for it. I quit because it got boring and didn't make progress fast. Then a couple of years ago I got the gist of html and css and made an attempt at php, because without php all you can do with css and html is very limited. It was hard and I had many questions but support on forums was very slow (I think php developers may be bad at explaining things) and after a while I threw the towel.

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