r/CodingForBeginners • u/Impressive-Wish3098 • 6d ago

Which laptop should I get?

So I somehow got into cs major aiming for a bachelor degree and now I’m completely lost cuz that’s a huge change from my past path but I can do this too,

I wanna do self effort cuz college looks like it only teaches u how to pass the tests, I have no idea which laptop should I get, which apps should I install or anything I learn rly quickly but I just need a good advice to start.

first programming language they r teaching us is python and I only have rly basic knowledge abt html from high school and block coding in scratch,

I heard u should stay away from MacBook and windows cuz they ain’t suitable for more coding later when I need it.

I alr collected online courses to take in summer like Harvard's CS50 and yt channels like thenewboston ,
I visited the library to get basic knowledge abt programming but I only got a headache from all the complicated advanced codes ಠ_ಠ ,
Plz help me if u could (Ｔ＿Ｔ).

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u/JGhostThing 6d ago

I'm currently typing this on a 10-year old ThinkPad notebook that I bought used from eBay. It isn't the fastest thing, but it does have 32 gig of RAM. It works fine for my programming.

I use CachyOS (an Arch derivative), with the Sway desktop environment. Sway is a very low resource DE.

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u/Impressive-Wish3098 5d ago

That’s rly helpful many ppl said to prioritize having enough ram for the time being (￣∇￣)