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Ask HN: Late-bloomer engineers, when and how did you discover programming?

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Re: Ask HN: Late-bloomer engineers, when and how did you discover programming?

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Post by lamchob »

mzl wrote: post #39
lamchob wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can second the experience that learning things in order to solve a problem works great. I struggle when I just have to sit down and lear something from scratch, without any direct application to the knowledge. But as soon I can project concepts and theories onto a problem I want to solve, I have no issue learning new things. Currently I learn a lot about relational algebra and algebraic semirings, because they are…

Out of curiosity, how would you say that relational algebra and algebraic semirings help you with constraint programming? While that can indeed be useful in some cases when doing research in constraint programming, I am curious how it helps you? Background: I'm a researcher in constraint programming and sometimes user of it in work-related projects.

Not directly with constraint programming itself. And also, I'm not doing a deep dive on these topics. But having an ideal of what is happening under the hood makes gives me more confidence in working with a tool and reasoning about choices.

Re: Ask HN: Late-bloomer engineers, when and how did you discover programming?

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Post by mzl »

lamchob wrote: post #41
mzl wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Out of curiosity, how would you say that relational algebra and algebraic semirings help you with constraint programming? While that can indeed be useful in some cases when doing research in constraint programming, I am curious how it helps you? Background: I'm a researcher in constraint programming and sometimes user of it in work-related projects.

Not directly with constraint programming itself. And also, I'm not doing a deep dive on these topics. But having an ideal of what is happening under the hood makes gives me more confidence in working with a tool and reasoning about choices.

Interesting. I don't think that would be my first choices of study.

If you want to know more about how constraint programming works under the hood, I can recommend the coursera course Solving algorithms for Discrete Optimization, in particular weeks 1 and 2 for constraint programming. https://www.coursera.org/learn/solving-algorithms-discrete-o...

Re: Ask HN: Late-bloomer engineers, when and how did you discover programming?

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Post by johndavid9991 »

duxup wrote: post #27

I'm 40+ been coding professionally for two years now. I used to be a network engineer but the nature of that business being treated as costly overhead and my personal interest slowly diminishing meant when my employer was bought I had a chance to think about if I wanted to do that and I .... did not. I tried coding in college but: 1. I was a terrible student at that time. 2. At that time it was largely "Here is a boo…

Awesome! How did you learn how to code? Did you self-study or took coding classes online or bootcamps?
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