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Kat

I haven't had a linear progression, I've just learned little chunks at random points and then given up

Kat

I'm determined to write a sys info tool

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On and off for a good while

What were you using in Learning? Learning materials do matter. I had to learn again when I found out I've been learning it wrong.

Kat

I haven't really been using anything

Kat

My strategy is usually to just figure out each part of what I want rather than following a tutorial

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@NameKatt See this

Kat

Do you have it in PDF? I don't have anything that can display DOCX

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My strategy is usually to just figure out each part of what I want rather than following a tutorial

Ah, shotgunning. Usually works for Spies and Soothsayers/fortunetellers.

Kat

It worked great for other languages

Kat

Maybe not C++

Kat

My brain has latched on to the idea of making a system info tool so I guess we're doing that

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It worked great for other languages

Until it doesn't. It's being half-baked.

Kat

My fancy snake language knowledge is pretty damn good

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My brain has latched on to the idea of making a system info tool so I guess we're doing that

Maybe your brain is using too much Speculative Execution

Kat

I've written a shell, a window manager, a Userbot all kinds of neat stuff

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My fancy snake language knowledge is pretty damn good

Python | JS ?

Kat

I don't know JS

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I don't know JS

So it's Python then

Kat

Oh you mean fancy snake language

Kat

Of course it's fancy snake language lol

Kat

My userbot is annoying

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Plus use Arch BTW. Kids 101!

Kat

I use Arch btw

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Your sins are innumerable

Kat

Lol

Kat

(Arch btw)

Kat

Okay I think I'm finally getting somwhere

Kat

In writing this sys info tool, I've hit a beautiful brick wall where I have to learn a language feature

Kat

> ./sysinfo �6�wM%

Kat

Uh

Kat

What did I do

Kat

int main() { utsname uname; printf(uname.sysname); return 0; }

Francisco

Are you in Linux?

Kat

yep

Francisco

Mmm, I assume uname.sysname is a char*

Kat

Oh you have to call uname

Kat

I presume I tried to print empty data. The uname function updates the struct I thinl

Kat

ayyyy

Kat

I fixed it

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In writing this sys info tool, I've hit a beautiful brick wall where I have to learn a language feature

C or C++ ?

Anonymous

I use rlutil.h, it's very good for its work

tell me how to use please

Kat

C++

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(Arch btw)

We don't use that in hare.

Kat

We don't use that in hare.

Why tho

Kat

Memes aside Arch is genuinely really good

Anonymous

tell me how to use please

Go search it on GitHub, it also has an example source code that will explain everything

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In writing this sys info tool, I've hit a beautiful brick wall where I have to learn a language feature

> I've hit a beautiful brick wall where I have to learn a language feature How not to learn 101 esp for beginners

Kat

> I've hit a beautiful brick wall where I have to learn a language feature How not to learn 101 esp for beginners

That is how I learn

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Go search it on GitHub, it also has an example source code that will explain everything

Until it's NOT.

Kat

I finally feel like I'm actually learning for once

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That is how I learn

Or how you get excited

Anonymous

Until it's NOT.

?

Francisco

I finally feel like I'm actually learning for once

The moments I think I learn the most are by hitting problems I don't know how to solve

Kat

I'm a little confused by something though. I keep seeing this int getlogin_r(char *buf, size_t bufsize); What does it mean?

Anonymous

Go search it on GitHub, it also has an example source code that will explain everything

Yes I've google

Kat

I want to access data from a struct but that seems to be doing something else

Kat

I'm a little confused by something though. I keep seeing this int getlogin_r(char *buf, size_t bufsize); What does it mean?

Wait I get it now

Kat

Is that just the function declaration so you know what arguments to pass?

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Is that just the function declaration so you know what arguments to pass?

Exactly why you need actual learning not just trying-to-do-stuff-learning

Kat

This is how I've always learned programming

Kat

I find it hard to concentrate on tutorials

Kat

Okay so it seems like there are two styles of function calling. There's passing a pointer to a variable to a function and having the variable filled with the necessary data, and there's also having the data returned from the function. Is there a reason both are used?

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I find it hard to concentrate on tutorials

You're NOT alone, but you have to face it at some point if u actually want to be really good at anything.

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A lot is hidden in the books

Kat

I'm good at fancy snake language and I learned this way

Kat

I do follow the official tutorials for new stuff that's added though

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Okay so it seems like there are two styles of function calling. There's passing a pointer to a variable to a function and having the variable filled with the necessary data, and there's also having the data returned from the function. Is there a reason both are used?

Talk aabout a whole chapter

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I do follow the official tutorials for new stuff that's added though

But u keep asking questions like this? "There's passing a pointer to a variable to a function and having the variable filled with the necessary data, and there's also having the data returned from the function. Is there a reason both are used?"

Kat

Yes?

Kat

It doesn't seem like there's a decent way to get the distro name. Every single distro stores it in a different way and distros aren't even required to have one at all

Kat

But I've written my little system info tool, I learned a bunch along the way

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