Lead: "Your fix didn't work at all!"
Me: "Really? Hmmm. <checks github> Well, uh, you just blasted my changes to the file that made everything work when you merged and pushed."
@LWFlouisa Yup!
That's a bummer to hear, I guess online programming communities don't have a good track record for being inclusive :( Was this recent?
@LWFlouisa That's so rude of them not to give you at least the gist of what public key cryptography is!
Also: I'm working on a big 3d game, and I think there's *one* bit of code that requires knowing any appreciable amount of calc. Between that and them being unwilling to share code org tips, sounds like a lot of fragile egos >_>
@LWFlouisa I don't think it's unreasonable to be nervous about that when joining a tech community. But there does exist groups of people who value being nice and helpful to self-learners.
A couple of my friends went through the Recurse Center program (https://www.recurse.com/) and they said it's a good place for people with widely varying skills who want to self-learn in an environment with supportive and respectful people. I hope this sort of thing takes off in other cities too.
@LWFlouisa That's a pretty awesome reason to learn 😄 I think people can really relate when you have little bits of realism grounding otherwise-fantastical stories
@LWFlouisa From Recurse Center's FAQ page:
"What kinds of people go to the Recurse Center?
Recursers come from an extraordinarily diverse range of backgrounds, from very experienced programmers to people who have only been programming for a few months."
So don't let that stop ya :)
Do you put any of your games, Terminal Shooter or others, up on a website or itch.io page?
