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Do Android Devs Dream of Feature Creep

it feels like it's harder than ever to just teach yourself to code online. sure, stuff like stackoverflow and wikipedia still exists, but the rest of the google search results page is just... fucking unusable. shitty blogs like geeksforgeeks, programiz, javatpoint, and the like flood the first few pages of google search results with unreadable, poorly-scraped, AI authored sludge that drowns out 90 percent of the useful information. a prospective programmer is left to scan over walls of incomprehensible GPT-spawned babble in search of a single nugget of useful information or explanation, often coming away exhausted, agitated, and fed up.

what a stupid problem. I was able to teach myself python and the basics of c/c++ before I even started middle school, back when google was useable. I doubt I could do the same today.

I've been having this exact difficulty, and I thought it was just like brain fog, but no - learning to code has actually, seriously, gotten harder.

All the good resources are either paywalled or gone. Everything that remains for free is so niche or so bad at actually teaching fundamentals that it's very difficult to dig into and work through.

I feel like the internet is fundamentally losing a lot to exactly this problem, just poorly scraped crap put together by bots/lowest common denominator type work.

It's sad, because I really want to take time to learn to code again, preferably in a useful language, but I just...can't find a resource that sits right with me, and I can't sample paid ones so I know what to pay for. I don't want to pay into something that doesn't work for me, you know?

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