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Message: [QUOTE="Pearly, post: 273420, member: 115914"] I'm entering my final year of my computer science degree with a good bit of work experience under my belt and having developed quite a few things at this stage, vertical slices and full functional apps not intended for release, more so fully functional "concept". Often high grades are just that you made a full app/website etc. by yourself with an extremely unreasonable deadline of 8 weeks. It doesn't work like that in industry at all. [IMG alt="sad cry GIF"]https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPThhNDcyYzQ2ZWd2cGkyd3hpYmk4ZWJpZmJ2b29nNnIxNjU5M2lzbjZzbDYxbGlvayZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/11N961lfRaZWfu/200.gif[/IMG] This advice is absolutely true, though I will say experience in C varies, lots of nuance to programming rules and how memory management works is much, much easier to understand with a good grasp of C. I learned it as I was interested in back end/systems level jobs and quite enjoyed it. I loved programming AFTER becoming familiar with C, before that it was necessity as I was stuck using java and them Kotlin for my university assignments, my grades were great but I despised both of them till I learned C, then I started to enjoy kotlin. Programming in general made more sense to me by learning about C and how C works, it made C ++ easier to learn and understand, though I would imagine that the reverse is also probably true as C++ is just C but added object oriented language functionality. I'm currently working on edge cases in python as it's the only thing I don't have a great handle on, getting there though!, I have done some animation for pixel art using co-ordinates for the x-y axis to create the pixels using java, that's about as much as I've done in that sense. No actual experiencing developing a game though I am open to working in games. All in all, pick an OOL and understand why everything is doing everything, python is a great way to start and you could make short little programs with it, then small apps etc. My degree started with Java and It was a nightmare to adjust to. I can say as someone that is near the end of their degree, I am glad I learned C, so much stuff makes way more sense to me now, even how threads and semaphores work etc. So much stuff can be learned so quickly with C The issue with all of it, is we all learn all this stuff at different rates and I liken it to music, learning a musical instrument, doing it through actual practice and trial and error, it takes a while to get good, but we always learn and improve, that just never stops. Programming is genuinely the same as playing music notes on an instrument, it must work according to rules and logic but it must be done often or the knowledge will leave you D: neetcode every day for an hour and just get it done is my current workload, I am actually getting better: for i in range(len(strs[0)): for s in strs: if i == len(s) or s[I] != strs[0] [I] return s[:i] return strs [I]My white space definitely isn't perfect but I am getting better, it used to be soul crushingly boring and uninteresting and it's exactly like learning to play a musical instrument, you'll be brilliant in a few years time, not any time soon. As you said, it's more the journey as much a the destination and from what I can tell we get near the destination but never quite there as we always need to upskill[/I][/I][/I] [/QUOTE]

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