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Okay, so. zero2perl is probably not ever getting off the ground. Does anyone have any recs for learning to code, ideally in a self-paced and minimally-expensive manner? (Or more accurately relearning, because I have coded before, just not since high school. Unless we count HTML, which we are not counting.) I don't know what I would be doing with this skill—though brain is telling me that trans-and-nonbinary-friendly period tracker app with on-or-off-hormonal-contraception functionality and a variety of appearance options including death metal (as previously discussed somewhere on these interwebs) would be a good first project—it just seems like a useful skill to have. I don't even know what programming language I'd want to start with. DW uses Perl, I believe, and I believe AO3 uses Ruby, but beyond that I am clueless. What even does one use to program for Android / Kindle Fire? (ETA: apparently Java)

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I have now coded a Ruby program that asks for my first name, then last, then middle, and then greets me by full name. It works. I'm calling today a win.

(And I am ignoring the little voice in the back of my head complaining about Google-esque real-name policies in context of this practice program. Because the point of this exercise is to [re]learn how to manipulate strings and variables, not to facilitate communication with people whose family name precedes their personal name or who have mononyms or some non-one number of middle names or whatnot. It is not as though anybody but me is seeing this program!)