That was pretty obvious for me. I am asking for myself. I definitely won't work in the field, so it there any use to learn a language? Other than a hobby of course.
I have written a text-based RPG and my friends loved it but there's only so much I can do with what I know. If I want to develop a mobile game in my free time on my own resources, what languages would I need to learn?
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You can use it to automate things, and can be handy for mathematics sometimes. Matlab or something like that would probably be your best bet for math but it costs money. A lot of what it does is reading data and acting on that, if you're doing some sort of file manipulation that's fairly tedious and you do it a lot then you might want to look into it. Depending on what you want to do there might be an open source project that you could look into, all emulators that I know of are open source and Android is open source. I can't really think of much better right now, sorry. I'm pretty tired.
For making a mobile game, i would probably recommend using a game engine such as Unity which uses C#(Pronounced C-Sharp if you didn't know) or Javascript. You can also use Unreal engine and then there's a few other ones, but Unity is what a ton of mobile games are made with. They are all free unless you are making money, unreal engine is 5% of the money you make after $3000 per quarter and unity is free until you make $100,000 from your app in a year.
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Become a Robin Hood hackor.
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So just because Chrome is trying to banish Java it means that everyone will?
Java is even used to code parking meters, btw.
Well you can always change your mind about your career and having more doors open never hurts. Being a "computer whiz" (aka, knowing how to work Office, basic cmd prompt commands, a bit of networking, etc, really basic stuff) will make you shine at any 9 to 5.Edited: January 14, 2016
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Java is like BitCoins... people who use it and like it treat it like a fandom, while the rest of the world moves on with the other options.
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I was taught Python at university in my first year.
Python so boring...
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Everyone in here is a programmer, and I though I'm special.
You guys ruin my dreams.
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You must feel like me when I first got to college and I realized I was no longer the best programmer (I don't like that term, I'm not a programmer, just know how to code..) in my school.
#feelsbadman
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They fixed queue skipping on lordaeron.
#feelsworseman
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Please.. we're not programmers... we're coders..
I like code, I enjoy SQL, but thats databasing. And playing around with some LUA is always fun.
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Is that really a thing with kids these days? Like the South Park thing with Goths vs. Emos vs. Vampires?
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ITT: people who have no idea what java is used for besides one use and never used java telling people that know and use java that they are wrong. Just like every other argument these people get in
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So, you are saying you do not write some programs?
And soryz for hurtin' ya all feelings.Edited: January 14, 2016
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I've always referred to people who actually work as developers (programming) programmers, not everyone who knows how to code is a programmer, at least imo.
You cannot put a guy in 9th grade who just learned basic C stuff with someone who codes for a living in the same bucket and call them both programmers.
(again, imo)
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Yeah, I get what you mean. It's just Kemii's post made me picture her saying it with a snobbish tone, you know?
"Programmers? Pfft... we're not such rabble, we're CODERS!"
Maybe just my imagination.
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guys i can write a site in html am i a coder yet???????????
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