May 14, 2024

Learn to Code in 5 Minutes a Day: Lesson 4

My experience with ADHD has been that slow consistent progress is how I achieve lasting results. When I hyperfocus on a new interest, I tend to burn out after a month or two and never touch it again. So this course is an attempt to go back and document how I wished someone had taught me to program. It literally took me years of trying before I felt comfortable programming professionally.

May 13, 2024

Learn to Code in 5 Minutes a Day: Lesson 3

Yesterday’s solution: package main import "fmt" func main() { fmt.Println("hello world") } When you run it you should be able to see it work like this: go run hello, world If you weren’t able to get this going on your own, go back until you can create this from memory and understand the pieces. Hint: you may have to run a command like this if you’re getting errors about go.mod:

May 12, 2024

Learn to Code In 5 Minutes a Day: Lesson 2

Lesson 2: Write Your First Program, aka Hello, World So yesterday we learned how to install golang. If you haven’t done that yet, go do that. Goals Today: write your first go program. build the habit of spending 5 minutes a day learning. Let’s get started: In this course I’m going to spend most of my time giving high level directions and trust your ADHD will take you down rabbit holes as you get curious about things.

May 12, 2024

Learn to Code in 5 Minutes a Day: Lesson 1

Lesson 1: Set up General rules for this course: Commit to at least 5 minutes a day. Figuring things out on your own is better than being given the answers. The general idea is, instead of spending hours following along typing what you see on a YouTube video and then realizing you retain none of it, each lesson will be a small programming puzzle to solve that gets you along the way to being a programmer.

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