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Cake day: July 13th, 2023

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  • I wish I could get my head around programming. I’ve tried learning from books, I’ve tried learning from codecademy, and all I can do is follow the lessons, I don’t understand how I’m supposed to turn all these lines of gibberish into a program that does something. The most common bit of advice I get is “Just make up a project! Find something that you want the computer to do, it’s easy and fun!” And I’m over here like… “OK, how?” It’s like someone pointing to a pile of metal and a welder and saying “Build something!” Sure, someone who knows how to weld can do that, but most people are going to need more information.











  • It’s the thing that people most often whine about with SW. I don’t think it crashes more often than any other program, but when you are in your own world trying to design something it can be annoying.

    Edit: I feel it’s entirely fair to compare Freecad to Solidworks, Inventor, Fusion360, Autocad, etc. It’s a cad program. I’m comparing it to other cad programs. To say that’s not a fair comparison is kind of a condemnation of freecad.