Graphene, the superconductor hoax, the quantum electron model all would like to disagree.
Even though you might not need to calculate anything with it, it certainly applies in your daily life. (although the electron model maybe mostly for high school students)
It’s always worthwhile to learn new things!
And programming is a tool, so it’s typically made to be clear how to use it, although of course people will differ on what needs to be clarified the most.
My experience is that there’s way too much discussion in what tool to pick, it doesn’t matter that much and almost all of the common languages will allow you to do all the things. And even though some will be better adapted for certain applications, it’s easy to pick up the new tool when relevant, and you’ll be that much ahead by being well versed in one.
As for how to learn, I find that you kind of need to figure out the basic syntax in each language (loops, conditionals, output, memory management, typology, lists, function calling, maybe classes/libraries if you’re fancy), and then start doing projects.
A nice intro for C# is the C# Player’s Guide by R B Whitaker, using some gamification and storytelling to get you through the basics, and even leave you prepared to tackle your first projects (by practicing design philosophy, how to break down projects, etc).
Otherwise, Python is a lot of fun, it’s made to be very easy to jump into, and then it’s fully featured to do anything you’d like it to. Unfortunately all my resources for it are in my local language, but it has many many users so I’m sure there’s great resources to be found in your own language.
You know, if the break room was actually ventilated for heating food, the microwaved fish smell wouldn’t be an issue.
But corporate couldn’t be arsed actually providing a suitable environment, tale as old as corporations…
Bah, the universe is too messy and disordered to be worth the trouble
There’s a cultural misunderstanding, in my culture religious trauma isn’t as prevalent, and as such I interpreted your usage of religion as an example of people butting in, rather than your main point.
You cleared up the emphasis in your response, and as such I apologise for the misunderstanding.
Oh, I apologise for coming off wrong, I entirely agree that religion is a very poor reason to dictate behaviour, especially others’.
I do however think that other people should get a say in what we do with the moon, lest it become another one in the parade of poor decisions in the name of colonisation and short sighted thinking.
How is this not a parallel to climate catastrophe?
I hear you arguing:
If you don’t want to pollute the planet, go ahead.
If other people want to pollute the planet, your beliefs are entirely irrelevant.
The moon is a shared resource, and blasting off rockets with remains into an ecology that can’t process it, and diminishes ours, seems like a poor way to respect neither our own nor the Moon’s resource cycles.
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Because it has been repeatedly shown that better social connections help get the right stuff done.
Trust, empathy, and liking each other allows for a generosity in dealings that is very conducive to communication, to problem solving, to finding ways to affect change in the organisation, to train/socialise workers into effective practices, to notice when the work is unbalanced or unaligned with the employee, to correct poor behaviour, and many more reasons.
A competent event organiser could plan to accommodate your introvert preference, and still achieve the prosocial goals.
You could have interactions in smaller groups at a time, have activities/breaks with social recovery (like solo or silent activities, spa/massage/meditation, simulators/noisy activities/activities in heavy gear), have solo parts of group activities (like solo brainstorms or reflective walks), have planned recovery time, etc.
If your social anxiety is that bad, you might need an exemption for health reasons, in the same way a ski trip could exempt someone with a broken leg.
But at least healthy people, including introverts, seemingly benefit immensely from prosocial activities at a workplace.
I’m sorry to hijack the thread, but have you tried brown noise (more like car noise than rain)? A bunch of people swear by it for making brain go quiet.
Sir, this is a Wendy’s.