i like your effort, and i want to do well here, but this is the third time this issue has happened to me, so here’s some feedback (not to you directly but for the program in general) you might pass on to someone who can do something about it.
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speaking candidly doubling my time on courses where i have to locate hidden requirements makes it difficult enough for me that skipping practices for the small sections where things don’t work becomes an option (at least until later).
i’d rather avoid some of the piecemeal solutions, i.e. not sustainable (let alone best practices), i find in the forum, e.g. I haven’t installed a VM in 15 years (not that it’s a bad idea, i just haven’t needed to, and the level of involvement is beyond me at the moment).
Now i understand that a lot of the things developers might need to do would be piecemeal and not best practices; i’ve been there myself.
But to start this program with already half the courses like that implies that they were either not systematically-enough considered beforehand OR just an inevitable part of development, likely a little of both i imagine.
This is forgivable! it IS complicated to set up classes that last. And to the extent that obsolescence is inevitable there’s a simple solution! Just make an overall intro course where students become intimately acquainted with the most commonly encountered environments and their respective vagaries as well as file-structures and global path variables in general so that the less initiated among us aren’t left taking twice as long (which turns what I thought would be a 6 or 7 month program into > a year). …i’m likely missing some other common errors into which people run, but surely there are more expert than I running the fora.
if i were going to use this computer for development, i’d consider it (ok honestly i’m likely going to try a few more things because my personality is a tenacious one, and i might use this computer for development at least initially), but as it is i’m getting paid nothing and will need to eat food pretty soon here in my life, sooooo… hahaha
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thanks for considering
in all honesty please keep the suggestions coming if you have them, and if there’s a better place for my gripe to be considered, i’m open to it.
I’ll try the python thing, but i don’t want to save an entirely different user on my computer just to run bitcoin scripts with node, and if i install a VM it’ll be later when i have more time to just troubleshoot machine-specific vagaries, but i’ll see if my old python installation and those other suggestions still work on a mac.
