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Is there anyone interested in doing a group where we learn to code together? Using mostly free resources? And work on a common project, perhaps? Programming language is open for discussion.

Gibt es Menschen die Interesse hätten an einer Gruppe, in der wir Programmieren lernen? Dabei v.a. freie Ressourcen nutzen? Und vll. an einem gemeinsamen projekt arbeiten? Programmiersprache ist noch offen.

@TQ That sounds like a cool idea. I'd be happy to give advice.

@wim_v12e That sounds nice! Are you specialized in one programming language?

@TQ I program in many languages, but of course not all of them to the same extent.
I can give details if you like.

@wim_v12e Perhaps you could give advice which ones are not tooooo hard to pick up. Some of us are beginners who haven't had experience coding so far.

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@TQ OK, sure. Ruby, Python and Perl are fairly easy to pick up. C/C++, Go, Rust and Java are harder. JavaScript is in between, closer to the easy side.
Haskell is hard to but very beautiful.

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@wim_v12e That is great advice, thank you!

@TQ When I say "harder" it means "takes a bit longer to learn".
I think what is very important when you learn to program is what I call a "mental model" of what happens when your program runs, how it executes what you've written. For languages that are close to the hardware like C, this model is more complex than for languages that are running in a VM or interpreter like Ruby, Perl etc.

@wim_v12e Yes, I've heard that... Good point! Thank you!