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A 37-year-old wanting to learn computer science

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165 points chbkall | 1 comments | 05 Jul 25 08:52 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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matt3210 ◴[05 Jul 25 10:00 UTC] No.44471515[source]▶
Find a series of small irritations on your computer and write scripts to solve them.
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chbkall ◴[05 Jul 25 12:10 UTC] No.44472218[source]▶
Would you give me a small example of the kind of small irritations you are talking about here?
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surgical_fire ◴[05 Jul 25 12:33 UTC] No.44472358[source]▶
For example - I wrote a script that automatically rsyncs a bunch of folders I care about to one external HD, and then replicates the backup to a different external HD for backup purposes.

That sort of thing that would require you to run a bunch of commands and that you have to do from time to time. Automating it to a single script is cool.

I have a friend that wrote a bot to track the prices of stuff that he wants to buy and messages him on Telegram the current price and the min/max since it started running. Another fun little project.

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1. chbkall ◴[05 Jul 25 12:38 UTC] No.44472396{3}[source]▶
Ah. This definitely sounds exciting and makes me think.