• ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    I’m still struggling with understanding for loops tbh. I kinda get them, but I can’t “make my own” so I don’t really understand them.

    I’ve never had any schooling coding, just made some scripts with internet help when I switched to linux, and I have ADHD like fuck so I haven’t really tried to understand them in months, but yeah if anyone knows of a good website to help learn for loops and how to create them (when to use what variables and brackets and shit, etc) I’m taking recomendations.

    For i in website do $(tell me please);

    (That can’t be right lol, see, I need help!)

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      1 year ago

      Don’t let yourself down because you don’t know the syntax off the top of your head.

      Even after 15 years of programming, and studying computer science, I would have to look up how to write loops, conditions, variable assignments in bash / sh / batch.

      Coming to python from a primarily java focus background wasn’t any different. I knew what steps the program should do, but had to look up how to translate it into whatever language. And for further improvements what features the language has to express the things “in the style of the language”

      • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 year ago

        Thanks, that encouragement is definitely helpful, it felt like I was struggling with something most programmers would consider should be mastered day 1, right after lunch because hello world is before lunch haha. Glad to know people still have to look it up even after a while sometimes.

    • Regular Human@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      For loops in scripting languages like bash should be a punishment. Try out something like python