Hey everyone, long time programmer here (14+ years)

I realized that AI fucked with my enjoyment of coding when it first released, and noticed myself getting more and more dumb (Literally couldn't think where to start on projects), and that made me depressed.

I ended up straight up going zero AI, and I have been loving it (Highly suggest everyone to question how much they rely on it).

Back to the topic.

I started learning Lua, and find it tricky to understand tables coming from C#, but I'm getting there.

I find that when I'm stuck between 2 or more design choices, and for the life of me can't decide, I ask AI, telling it to not just tell me I am right if I'm wrong, but actually give me good advice, and using AI also helps me ask a question on if my understanding of something is correct.

The main thing, I feel so ashamed of using AI for what I just listed above, but I know 1 person who does programming, the guy who helped me learn, and he stopped a long time ago with Programming, and yes, sometimes I ask him but it takes days getting a reply when I ask, so I find myself locked into asking AI for advice.

My main point of this is basically, why do I feel literally depressed sometimes just because I ask for input on my design choices and if I am understanding something correctly?

I am IT student but interested more in coding and programming stuff rather than hardware and started with web dev but ended soon because it wasn't fun enough, then started java and spring boot but that wasn't that much fun because everything seems to be confused and I don't know what's going on and then tried some modding started with minecraft but immediately quit (IDK Why) now I am thinking about to start with game dev to try to make tiny 2d game in java. but still I wanna hear from you guys.. Which Programming fields you found out more interesting and worth trying as beginner

I see a lot of hate against using claude to even learn honestly, like i get the point when you just build projects with claude that arent really learning oriented but are meant to show "execution".

recently i did a project and was given a lot of bad remarks just because i used claude for feedbacks, constructive criticism and minor debugging

this is a recent project i did to learn about opencv and image processing libraries in general and this is the repo
https://github.com/shaynjam/visual_project_1
and honestly im really open to criticism and please help me improve.

Hello, I just want to start coding to teach ai and make my own. I know algorithms and stuff, but I never disciplined myself to do it for weeks, months. I think I will learn Python, and I think to start with Harvard’s CS50X and then CS50P im not sure if I should watch CS50AI because focusing on one source is bad, as I have been told. What are your recommendations?

In a single-core system, what happens if two threads from different processes access the same physical memory address?

The official answer says:

Neither program crashes, and both produce expected results.

I don't understand why that must be true.

A memory access could be a write, not just a read. For example, couldn't Thread A read/write that address, then get context-switched out, and Thread B access the same physical address before Thread A finishes its operation?

Wouldn't that potentially cause a race condition or unexpected result, even on a single core?

Am I missing an assumption in the question?

I am in class 9 and wanna learn web dev but dont know what free course i should choose. Earlier I chose TOP but i have to install VM for that and my father is denying to do so cuz its his laptop... Please help me out... and make sure that the course you tell should be documented

Background:
- From the U.K.
- Did an MSci in Maths and Statistics.
- Got a grad job at a Big 4 accounting firm and qualified as an accountant.
- Jumped over to being an analytics engineer instead, which has slowly shifted into being more of a data engineering / data platform engineering role.

Lots of SQL, Python (actual OOP not just scripting), some React (just so I could actually plug my stuff in).

Not sure where I go from here tbh. Used to be an AI sceptic but obviously I no longer am.

Do I want to remain a tech person with a background in accounting (in which case, what else do I learn?), or is the safer bet to be an accounting person with a background in tech?

I tried mooc and should install TMCBeans but the program crashes immediately, the startup window is comes up then it closes, I tried to change to the correct file but that didn't seem to help either so I'm not sure how to fix it. I have the correct JDK installed I guess.

These is installed:

openjdk version "11.0.32.1" 2026-08-18

OpenJDK Runtime Environment Temurin-11.0.32.1+1 (build 11.0.32.1+1)

OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM Temurin-11.0.32.1+1 (build 11.0.32.1+1, mixed mode)

i am learning computer science at school and wanna make some projects at home. i am currently learning java and decided to download visual studio code instead of using the online compilers like we do at school for some reason, and the installer asks me if i want to install github copilot CLI and i dont know what it is. should i install it or nah?

Hi everyone,

I am a Master's student specializing in Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Image Processing. I am looking for projects to contribute to and would be happy to collaborate with anyone who has project ideas in these fields.

Thank you!

import java.util.Scanner;

public class main

{

public static void main(String[] args) {

Scanner kboard = new Scanner(System.in);

System.out.println("Press 1 to enter lottery numbers or 2 to enter name: ");

if (kboard.nextInt() == 1) {

System.out.println("Enter your lottery numbers");

int lotteryNumbers = kboard.nextInt();

} else {

System.out.println("Please enter your name: ");

String name = kboard.nextLine();

}

}}

I've been wanting to make a music player for a while now and trying to decide on the right language for it. My plan in the end is to make my own server like Jellyfin or Navidrome (I don't use those because they don't fit my particular taste and my own pride). But I realize I do first need a working application that runs alone. I'm gonna run these on windows and android and want to try make for both before branching out into Linux and Mac. So yeah. I just need to know what language I need to learn first

EDIT: I already know python if that's helpful

I've been practicing python on codewars.com, and this is listed as the best practice:

def alphabet_position(text):
    return ' '.join(str(ord(c) - 96) for c in text.lower() if c.isalpha())

while my code is longer, but I feel is easier to read. Which one is better?

import string

def alphabet_position(text):

    output = ""
    for char in text:
        if char.isalpha():
            output += str(string.ascii_lowercase.index(char.lower()) + 1)
            output += " "

    return output.strip()