Where to read Code? or Best practices to Learn Code?

travisdh1

is that open source ?
I've heard the name a few times but never really messed with it.

GitHub is the place that a lot of open source projects use to store their code.

WrCombs

@WrCombs said in Where to read Code?:

is that open source ?
I've heard the name a few times but never really messed with it.

GitHub is the place that a lot of open source projects use to store their code.

I believe @JaredBusch uses GitHub a lot, right?

travisdh1

If you're looking at getting into programming, I'd highly recommend learning to use git (no prize for guessing where GitHub got it's name.)

JaredBusch

@WrCombs said in Where to read Code?:

@travisdh1 said in Where to read Code?:

@WrCombs said in Where to read Code?:

is that open source ?
I've heard the name a few times but never really messed with it.

GitHub is the place that a lot of open source projects use to store their code.

I believe @JaredBusch uses GitHub a lot, right?

Github and Gitlab both.

WrCombs

@travisdh1 said in Where to read Code?:

If you're looking at getting into programming, I'd highly recommend learning to use git (no prize for guessing where GitHub got it's name.)

I'm just learning something new - Someone told me I should try coding so I figured what bad could it do for me to look at it and do a few lessons.

I'm guessing here<--! because I honestly dont know... I've only see it around a bunch --> - that GitHub got it's name from codes like -

git https://github.com/getsomeradomcode/fromthisperson/himom

?

WrCombs

@JaredBusch said in Where to read Code?:

@WrCombs said in Where to read Code?:

@travisdh1 said in Where to read Code?:

@WrCombs said in Where to read Code?:

is that open source ?
I've heard the name a few times but never really messed with it.

GitHub is the place that a lot of open source projects use to store their code.

I believe @JaredBusch uses GitHub a lot, right?

Github and Gitlab both.

Gitlab similar to github I assume, Same concept?

travisdh1

@bnrstnr said in Where to read Code?:

Here are some examples of software that is popular on ML:
https://github.com/vatesfr/xen-orchestra
https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat
https://github.com/nextcloud
https://github.com/snipe/snipe-it
https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB
https://github.com/Ylianst/MeshCentral

A lot of us have things on GitHub as well, and tend to be much simpler as they're things like update or installation scripts:
https://github.com/Jarli01/xenorchestra_updater
https://github.com/travisdh1/FedPiHSecDNS

I can't find @scottalanmiller's stuff for some reason.

travisdh1

@WrCombs said in Where to read Code?:

@JaredBusch said in Where to read Code?:

@WrCombs said in Where to read Code?:

@travisdh1 said in Where to read Code?:

@WrCombs said in Where to read Code?:

is that open source ?
I've heard the name a few times but never really messed with it.

GitHub is the place that a lot of open source projects use to store their code.

I believe @JaredBusch uses GitHub a lot, right?

Github and Gitlab both.

Gitlab similar to github I assume, Same concept?

Yep, that's right.

scotth

I love the list of projects that people here like.

bnrstnr

@travisdh1 said in Where to read Code?:

@bnrstnr said in Where to read Code?:

Here are some examples of software that is popular on ML:
https://github.com/vatesfr/xen-orchestra
https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat
https://github.com/nextcloud
https://github.com/snipe/snipe-it
https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB
https://github.com/Ylianst/MeshCentral

A lot of us have things on GitHub as well, and tend to be much simpler as they're things like update or installation scripts:
https://github.com/Jarli01/xenorchestra_updater
https://github.com/travisdh1/FedPiHSecDNS

I can't find @scottalanmiller's stuff for some reason.

Maybe he's only on gitlab?
https://gitlab.com/scottalanmiller/nextcloud_fedora_installer

JaredBusch

@bnrstnr said in Where to read Code?:

@travisdh1 said in Where to read Code?:

@bnrstnr said in Where to read Code?:

Here are some examples of software that is popular on ML:
https://github.com/vatesfr/xen-orchestra
https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat
https://github.com/nextcloud
https://github.com/snipe/snipe-it
https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB
https://github.com/Ylianst/MeshCentral

A lot of us have things on GitHub as well, and tend to be much simpler as they're things like update or installation scripts:
https://github.com/Jarli01/xenorchestra_updater
https://github.com/travisdh1/FedPiHSecDNS

I can't find @scottalanmiller's stuff for some reason.

Maybe he's only on gitlab?
https://gitlab.com/scottalanmiller/nextcloud_fedora_installer

I believe, that is correct.

bnrstnr

@WrCombs I just came across this, too
https://github.com/collections/learn-to-code

WrCombs

@bnrstnr said in Where to read Code?:

@WrCombs I just came across this, too
https://github.com/collections/learn-to-code

Fantastic,
Thank you

WrCombs

@bnrstnr said in Where to read Code?:

@WrCombs I just came across this, too
https://github.com/collections/learn-to-code

LOL I am using free code camp right now for learning Html5/html, and CSS is what i'm currently on

DustinB3403

@WrCombs said in Where to read Code?:

is that open source ?
I've heard the name a few times but never really messed with it.

Is GitHub open source. . . .?

WrCombs

@DustinB3403 said in Where to read Code?:

@WrCombs said in Where to read Code?:

is that open source ?
I've heard the name a few times but never really messed with it.

Is GitHub open source. . . .?

.....

scottalanmiller

@WrCombs said in Where to read Code?:

So, Any ideas on places I could just sit and read code when I'm not learning code?

Any code repo like GitHub, GitLab, etc. However, I'm not convinced that that is a very useful practice. First of all, reading random code can teach a lot of bad habits. Second, it's insanely hard to read other people's code and figure out what is going on and even worse, what they intended. Often code does one thing and even the person writing it isn't sure why. That makes it pretty difficult to learn in that fashion.

It's not that you should avoid reading someone else's code. But I think you'll find, at least this is true for me, that if you spend time working on your own code you will get way, way more out of your time and far less frustration.

scottalanmiller

@WrCombs said in Where to read Code?:

is that open source ?
I've heard the name a few times but never really messed with it.

It's a service. There is no concept of source. Source refers to software, not to services.

scottalanmiller

@WrCombs said in Where to read Code?:

@travisdh1 said in Where to read Code?:

@WrCombs said in Where to read Code?:

is that open source ?
I've heard the name a few times but never really messed with it.

GitHub is the place that a lot of open source projects use to store their code.

I believe @JaredBusch uses GitHub a lot, right?

Almost everyone does. It's by far the largest code repository system, and is owned by Microsoft.

NTG and Quixotic use GitLab instead.

Lots of people use BitBucket.

scottalanmiller

@WrCombs said in Where to read Code?:

I'm just learning something new - Someone told me I should try coding so I figured what bad could it do for me to look at it and do a few lessons.

I would NOT start with learning GIT. That's like getting a Raspberry Pi to learn programming.... all about gadgets and shiny things and avoiding learning the real thing that you came to learn. You'll spend your time focusing on the "asides" rather than on the "thing."

HTML and CSS are good for enforcing basic concepts of syntax and accuracy, but teach nothing about coding. They are awesome things that everyone in every technical field should know, for sure. So that time is good. But don't think of this as your path to coding. It's a skill coders often use, but it's not like "junior coding", it's a different activity with different brain functions.

If your goal is to try coding and figuring out if it interests you, the one and only activity to do is actually writing code. Anything else is avoiding writing code

CodeAcademy and others have simple classes for free to get you started right away. Python is probably the best place to start.