Across this vast Fediverse, I have encountered a trend of people answering questions with esoteric programming language speaking in tongues that I don't understand, including under my own posts. I am a Boomer when it comes to coding and I am only 27. I don't even know where I would start to learn it because programming is so diverse. I want to feel like I know what's going on but I don't. Coding is the future and the future is now and I am lagging severely behind. I guess I'm asking where a bumbling novice like me can learn more about where to start when it comes to programming.

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[–] nednobbins@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’d actually start by playing around with the automation and customization functionality you already have. Learn to set email sorting filters, get some cool browser extensions and configure them, maybe even start by customizing your windows preferences or making some red stone stuff in Minecraft.

Computers are just tools. Programs are just stuff you tell a computer to do over and over again. All the fancy programming languages give you really good control over how you talk to a computer but I’d start with the computer equivalent of “Me Tarzan, you Jane.”

[–] favrion@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What language would that be?

[–] biddy@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They aren't talking about a programming language, just the graphical tools in the programs you already have.

If you are interested in simple automation for your computer, learn python. If you are interested in simple automation in a browser, learn JavaScript.

[–] favrion@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I don't know what needs to be automated though.