Feeling really chuffed and had to share. Great way to end the year.
To all business MBA guys learning to code: you can do it! just get started!!
Happy New Year guys :)
P.S It was in C# in case anyone is wondering.
Tell HN: 2 weeks ago, I didnt know programming. I just wrote a web scraper.
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Re: Tell HN: 2 weeks ago, I didnt know programming. I just wrote a web scraper.
#2Well done!
Re: Tell HN: 2 weeks ago, I didnt know programming. I just wrote a web scraper.
#3Congrats, glad to hear you had success. I'm curious as to why you started with C#. Most people these days are steered the way of Python or Ruby it seems. Care you elaborate on your goals?
Re: Tell HN: 2 weeks ago, I didnt know programming. I just wrote a web scraper.
#4Congratulations.
Re: Tell HN: 2 weeks ago, I didnt know programming. I just wrote a web scraper.
#5Congrats. Programming is made out to be a hard thing and for people who don't think logically it is. But to a logically thinking person it's like the greatest game you'll ever discover.
Re: Tell HN: 2 weeks ago, I didnt know programming. I just wrote a web scraper.
#6Your next step on the path to being a hacker is to share your work. Where can we see your "web scraper" in action?
Re: Tell HN: 2 weeks ago, I didnt know programming. I just wrote a web scraper.
#7Congrats, glad to hear you had success. I'm curious as to why you started with C#. Most people these days are steered the way of Python or Ruby it seems. Care you elaborate on your goals?
My cofounders were C# guys. One new benefit I thought of recently was that C# is similar to Java and thats what mobile apps are coded apart from Objective-C. Who says the MVP has to be a webapp? :)
In anycase, my thinking was just get started first. Im probably going to dabble in Python or Ruby (probably Python) just to see what its like at some point. But for the time being, just getting my head down and writing code and asking really n00b questions on stackoverflow is definitely the way to go.
Re: Tell HN: 2 weeks ago, I didnt know programming. I just wrote a web scraper.
#8If you'll permit me to be annoyingly geeky, "That's good. You have taken your first step into a larger world." :)
Re: Tell HN: 2 weeks ago, I didnt know programming. I just wrote a web scraper.
#9Congrats, glad to hear you had success. I'm curious as to why you started with C#. Most people these days are steered the way of Python or Ruby it seems. Care you elaborate on your goals?
My cofounders were C# guys. One new benefit I thought of recently was that C# is similar to Java and thats what mobile apps are coded apart from Objective-C. Who says the MVP has to be a webapp? :) In anycase, my thinking was just get started first. Im probably going to dabble in Python or Ruby (probably Python) just to see what its like at some point. But for the time being, just getting my head down and writing cod…
If you're interested in web scraping, take a look at Mechanize (it's available for Perl, Python, and Ruby, at least, though I prefer Ruby) - it makes web scraping trivial.
Re: Tell HN: 2 weeks ago, I didnt know programming. I just wrote a web scraper.
#10Your next step on the path to being a hacker is to share your work. Where can we see your "web scraper" in action?
I don't know where can I post it? Probably post it to my blog once I've commented it up. Heading out for dinner with the gf so check later! FYI, it looks like a thing of beauty to me but it probably looks like dogshit to the pros. lol.