Hello from Canada quebec
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Greetings!
I've always had a curiosity for coding, mostly used autoit and AHK since the 2000's to make work tools and windows utilities. mostly copy pasting a bunch of code i didnt understand and then making it somehow magically fit into what i needed. Learned the basic of a ton of languages and bought courses on udemy but always stopped when learning stopped being intuitive
(Original right? hehe )
Since this fall, I've started to take programming a bit more seriously and the courses are getting into more in depth topics. Really feel like I hit a wall. It's like no more new information is being retained. I keep watching the same courses over and over but nothing stays.
Since I have no short term goal or project I thought maybe doing exercises would help with that.
well that's why I'm here! To figure out ways to do stuff without being told what to do
Still figuring out how to post proper answers...
I just now found out (I think) that you're supposed to take the "test data" and paste it straight in your program and let it spit out the answer and that it's for you to figure out how to extract the input and use it properly.
I've been making functions that take input from either side and make different arrays and then pass them to functions to use the index data or make new arrays, oops i guess? haha
Well, that's about it! I'm sure I will see you all around.
Hi Friend!
Thanks for your story - curious recollection for me, since I think I used a bit of both autoit and autohotkey decade ago. Though these are things you often need when testing software. If you go deeper in this direction, you'll soon meet with Selenium and Cypress for testing webpages in same manner.
I keep watching the same courses over and over but nothing stays.
Aha-ha, that's true, I believe, for most of us - for me definitely. One of my teacher said long ago that "programming belongs to such a category of things which you can't be simply taught, you rather can and should learn it".
you're supposed to take the "test data" and paste it straight in your program
yep, that's the idea though certain percent of people miss it. Probably I should try to create couple more demo videos.
Note the other approach also - you can take the same your code (which reads from standard input and writes to standard output) and paste it into the "solution" area, then just hit the button with appropriate language - code and test data are sent to server and you (should) get answer in a few seconds.
Feel free to ping me if it is still not very clear, probably you'll make me understand better how to make it clearer!
BTW, one of memorable gurus here, during first years, was your country-mate and used visual-basic, I believe! Check
the top of ranking table for Guy Gervais. Perhaps you'll get there too some day :)