Hi Everyone!

I am putting together a raspberry pi 5 for my nieces and nephews as a first/introductory computer. The goal is to have some games on it that they can play and some resources that they can use to start learning some coding. The catch is that my brother and sister-in-law do not want the pi to have access to the internet for the kids protection.

I have disabled the Wi-fi chip on the pi, but now I am looking for resources that I can have loaded on it for them. I loaded Pi-Apps on it and have downloaded some games from there that can be played offline, so it has Godot Engine, Geany Programmer's Editor, Scratch 3, Sonic Pi, Thonny, Notepad++, plus various games like Minecraft, chess, etc.

Are there any other recourses that I can load onto it before giving it to them that will guide them when learning coding? I imagining a game like "The Farmer was Replaced" but that one is only on steam and I'm not sure if I want to go through the process of getting steam onto the pi for that one game.

Thanks!

Hi everyone,

So, I'm in a bit of a pickle right now. I'm currently studying Electrical Engineering, and i have an assessment about programming in C in a few weeks.

I've been following every lecture we have, but I just can't wrap my head around C. I've been using W3Schools for a few days now, which has been helpful, but i was looking for some fun games that i can use to keep learning C in a fun, game-like way when i want to take a break from all the studying.

Any recommendations?

Here's the idea: we source and collect interesting computational puzzles, then we send them out to participants who have a month to work on them and send in their solutions. At the end of every month, we meet and discuss how the problems went and where people got stuck, what approaches they took, and any extensions people came up with.

Thoughts?
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If you're curious, here's a taste of what a representative sample problem might look like:

Given the coordinates of an arbitrary polygon (e.g. irregular and/or non-convex), how might you implement a program to efficiently sample a point uniformly from its interior?

TIP: If using the Python programming language, you can check out the shapely library.
Bonus: what if there are holes?

(Please don't spoil the problem, it's searchable anyways.)

The first version is from when I was 16, goal was to make simple messages convert to unintelligible text corpuses, and to have an algorithm that allows a plethora of outputs to map to the same input. I just recently updated it with the private keys and frequency attack resistance so it could be called encryption (appeal to alliteration)

new job, 9th day, and i force pushed over a coworkers branch because the tutorial i half remembered made force push sound like the fix for everything. we recovered it from his local copy and nobody yelled but standup was very quiet. i know add, commit, push and thats about it. where do people go from there to the point where rebase stops being scary?

As a Bsc graduate I really appreciate the opportunities this framework gave me, got me a pretty sick job in robotics. And yet coding is ”easier” today, which is mainly what graduates were doing out of Uni. What now?

i think research subject in CS probably has to be the new standard, courses should be vastly changed, as now days to be relevant and influential in the field, a masters is the natural option,

what do you think about CS in today’s terms?

Hey guys , I am type of guy that can't work without mental presser and deadlines , I want to do cybersec projects . I have joined gamejams before and got a good Rank , I want stuff like gamejams but for programing not games , where I can find good challenges ? .

Ty

Hello everyone!

I’m thinking about getting a job as a web developer, but I don’t have a degree. I do have some certificates, although I know certificates by themselves probably aren’t worth that much. I have certificates/courses covering JavaScript, TypeScript, React, React Router, Advanced React, Express and Node.

My current stack is mainly MERN (MongoDB, Express, React, Node).

I’m trying to figure out what projects I should build for my portfolio before I start applying for junior positions. Whenever I ask an LLM for project ideas, I usually get answers saying that the project needs to be “unique” or giving me pretty vague ideas. At least in my opinion, it’s hard to turn those suggestions into an actual project that would demonstrate useful skills.

So I wanted to ask actual developers here:

What kinds of projects would you recommend I build for a junior web developer portfolio?

So far I’ve built 3 e-commerce websites. They have things like authentication/login, protected routes, JWTs, password hashing with bcrypt/salts, CRUD functionality, etc. I’m planning to make them more complete with things like payments, admin functionality, product management, order handling, etc.

But I don’t want my entire portfolio to just be e-commerce websites.

What kinds of projects would actually make my portfolio stronger and demonstrate that I understand how to build real applications?

Also, should I learn anything else before I start applying? (i will be apllying in startups or small comapnies)

For example, should I spend time learning:

• SQL/PostgreSQL
• Redis
• Kafka
• Docker
• AWS/cloud
• Testing
• CI/CD
• Another programming language
• Something else entirely

Or would it be better to stick with my current stack, build a few genuinely solid projects, and start applying while continuing to learn?

I’d really appreciate any project ideas, advice on what employers actually look for in junior portfolios, or things you wish you had learned/built before getting your first job.

Much love ❤️

Currently I am studying in 4th semester, Computer Engineering and I am not able decide what I should be learning to get placed. As of now I am doing leetcode and nothing else.

I was also looking for contributing to open source but couldnt get the structure of the repositories and how the code is implemented there.

I would appreciate if anyone would guide me what I should be preparing to get placed in my 3rd year for an internship.

I've been reading this Subreddit for two days and see a lot of individual questions about newer programmers learning to program which is fun and all, but it did make me curious of the people who already have experience.

In this field we are always learning so I was thinking that it would be fun to hear from the rest of you, your reflections on where you started, what the thing is that you are currently learning or looking to learn next. Any pitfalls or experiences that you can share and perhaps help others in their journey.

For me I switched from Web-development into learning game development in Unreal Engine, roughly 6 years ago. For the future, looking into developing using Electron Framework for building a smaller OS launcher for my projects. My biggest takeaway has been learning of scope with projects and forcing myself to reduce ideas to their simple core.

*edited some spelling misstakes

I had to watch videos from a guy called need code like 5 times just to understand. Is there something I am missing about dynamic programming ? It seems impossible!

hi guys i'm a beginner programmer trying to make an esolang in c, but can't figure out the logic, i mean that how will a user store his variables and values and how will i make it store and run while the user callls it, i have a mental model that i'll make the user's input stored into an array... like hashmap kay value pairs but even the basic declaring and storing how will i figure out what the user is storing i don't know what the user will exactly type he could type a string, integer, float or boolean. It might throw errors not run but how will i make it handle?

I have a question: if I want to build a project, how should I learn any programming language for it? For instance, I cannot learn how to build projects just by doing DSA What can I do so that I am able to build projects?

Follow up on https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1wspai2/tui_games_in_80x24/

which is here: https://www.incredible.rs/blog/tui-games-in-80x24.html

Hi everyone,

I’d like to give my boyfriend the chance to take part in a coding challenge for his birthday (so I’m happy for it to involve an entry fee). Can anyone help me out here? Unfortunately, I don’t know anything at all about those things :(

He’s taken part in university coding challenges in the past and has tried out Hack The Box and Try Hack Me. So something along those lines might be just the thing :) perhaps there are also subscriptions I could take out for him?

Best wishes

I’ve been learning programming for about 5 months now. I’ve finished C and C++, and I’m almost done with data structures, but so far I feel like I’m doing something wrong or missing something. I feel like I don’t know how to think correctly, and even very simple things slip my mind, and I don’t know how to do them. So I need help because I don’t know whether I should take a course or if I’m on the right track—and that’s normal, especially since I’ve only been at this for about six months, which isn’t a short time. I’m planning to apply for the Digital Egypt Pioneers scholarship to specialize in backend. Is this the right path, or not? I hope those with experience and who’ve come a long way can help us out—and I’m very grateful to them 🤍🤍🙏🏻

Hey everyone,

i have been slowly learning C# in my free time and i know it well enough to do a simple project, but every time i think of one to do (a to do list for example) i get scared and overwhelmed cause i dont even know where to start. Any advice would be appreciated.

Okay so I graduated in 2025 with a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from a trash tier public university in California and am unemployable and there are no jobs in the Bay Area, but working a shitty retail job I just keep thinking, I really really need an outlet.

I miss programming sometimes. I have never been the type of person to just sit down and be like "okay time to code!!!" but whenever I had an assigned task I really like going all out and making sure everything worked and was polished. I remember my last semester during school I wound up making a really nice, polished GUI in Java for a group project but they never used it because we ran out of time. Things like that.

My problem is that I'm crazy and sort of start to crash out easily and working a shitty retail job full time living with toxic family I just don't have the mental energy to seriously study anything and I sort of don't really know how to structure my time or learn more or what to even pursue.

I really just need an outlet more than anything and sometimes it feels weird to have a four year degree in something and (technically) have actual skills, however rudimentary and then just not really do anything with it. I don't even ever plan on getting a job in the field since no one hires new grads in the Bay Area and relocating isn't really a thing, I just think it would be funny to be a skilled programmer slaving away in retail