Getting Started in Computer Programming Questions

Last year I learned my first computer program language by accident. I hand copy texts using archival ink to imported artisan paper/scrolls from india and nepal so I can get a feel for how big historic texts actually were, and saw something about Lambda Calculus and jus started copying it all down. It was apparently the first programming language ever developed. I don't know what to do with it otherwise. I vaguely recall programs I believe called AAB++ and Haskell are based on it, but when I looked at Haskell you had to know C++ too.

I like logic in philosophy and know there are database languages for induction.... but I'm uncertain where to get my start. I want to do it on a computer, not a android app, preferably free and at my own pace. Not some coding bootcamp. I have no idea how to load it up on a computer though. Clueless.

What options exist?

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ImperialAerosolKidFromEP · 51-55, M

What do you want it for? I'm even older than you, but I was told I should learn Rust since C++ is circling the drain. But maybe you're on a different path from me

Dignaga

@ImperialAerosolKidFromEP I'm into logic but also I'm 41 and getting started soon into the Vanlife. I don't mind crappy wage jobs but eventually I'll hit a age where my body will wear out. When I was working as a private, underthetable paid home health aid, I would rotate between five McDonalds to sit and study for a few hours away from them, and one had digital nomads who moved from California and Nevada to West Virginia and just worked all day doing Python odd jobs for $130 a hour or schitzophrenically debating current events (they were bad at it). I know I'm smarter than them. I also knkw enough about 20th century logic to know computer programming borrowed heavily from it.

Thing is, only C++ people I knew were lesbians who worked in HR previously. Over 5, quite the stereotype. I know one woman who tried unsuccessfully to have a affair with me in order to leave her husband was a computer programmer, but because she was a usually pregnant programmer from Brazil never got above the $40 a hour line, while he worked for the NSA as a programmer and got $140 a hour.

I don't want to work for the government, or even a company really. But right now the only job I'm qualified to work from a van is as a locksmith and I lost all my equipment over covid. You can do locksmithing as a old man, but I'd like alternatives. Only reason that crazy girl was thinking of leaving her husband for a broke guy was because she felt financially self sufficient. Deeply upset as a feminist because she couldn't make as much as him, but she felt secure.

I'm not looking for full time employment, just random gigs. Enough to pay the gas and drive and not starve. But I don't know how to get these programs on a computer, and started in them. I can do logic, so have a head start.

ImperialAerosolKidFromEP · 51-55, M

@Dignaga You make 130$/hr on Python? USD? Those must be some pretty odd jobs or you're making more than double what I am

Dignaga

@ImperialAerosolKidFromEP I don't know python, the digital nomad mooching off McDonalds wifi was doing that. I really have no intention of going to college or working for a firm doing programming. I'd like to be able to pull off to a beach and run a laptop off solar energy and a cellular modem and do the coding. On a irregular basis. If I gotta deal with HR interviews showing certificates and past employers and how spiffy I look in a tie I won't be happy.

ImperialAerosolKidFromEP · 51-55, M

@Dignaga Ah, well you just said you already learned a language, so that might make it easier to break into something for which you would be hired--you might be past the beginner stage by now. As for the rest of it, you'd be asking for career advice, which I'm pretty bad at myself. I can tell you that I often see the "remote" keyword in a lot of listing, which sounds like the sort of thing you'd want.