I don't know what I'm doing, which is great, there's so much to learn! Can you think of a better place to start?

Digging into C#, it's been a bit of an adventure! Occasionally frustrating, but that's not entirely bad either. I'm not necessarily the n00biest n00b that ever did code, I'm feeling a bit like it. That's okay. Ultimately my goal is to become a passably competent C# developer. I'm starting on my own although I am open to education at some point too, but I wouldn't be against finding something in the real world. Hopefully.

Also a total Github n00b, but hey, I'm using it instead of despising it, so that is a start, I think? I get the point of version control, I love the idea of branches, but something just rubs me the wrong way about git. The tooling around it, the terminology, it is so crazy powerful and yet much of it just seems obtusely hidden. On the other hand, it would have saved my butt if I'd been using it a decade ago, so time to learn!

Initially I am starting out by re-coding some absolutely terrible PHP code that I wrote in the past, various stuff I just slapped together to solve a problem I had, mostly copy/pasted from StackOverflow and others in the finest tradition of PHP.

And looking at some stuff on NuGet, trying to figure out how some libraries work to see if I can interact with some services I already use.

Oh and I might look at a bunch of old batch-type scripts that I could rewrite. Heck, maybe even some Linux shell scripts that I wrote and use regularly could pack up and go away?

Plus I'm looking for any bugs I fixed in code belonging to other projects that didn't get committed, and I'll submit a proper PR. Or e-mail the developer. Or just feel self-satified. I typically did not do so before simply because I was not confident about my skills, nor was I familiar enough with Github.

And in fact, I just logged my first issue including a PR to a public project. Woohoo, at least if it gets acceptted.

This is a ✨ special ✨ repository!