Be me

>be me
>wanted to learn programming
>learned programming
>love programming
>become good at it
Basically I enjoy programming and coding, and love discussing with it, when I was younger I used to get all my friends into programming, and taught them stuff, and they were slightly annoyed, they never really learned programming but it was alright.
>Become really good at programming
>People keep asking me questions about it
>Then meet people who "want to learn programming"
>Waste my time with them
>I teach them everything I know, I talk about it with passion but they seem bored.
>They get other non-related jobs and quit it.
>Die a little bit inside.
Am I a bad teacher? What's wrong with these kind of people, the people who say who want to learn but they don't learn anything!

It's as if they don't actually give a shit about programming, it's just a meme to them. How do you deal with this situation?

On wich IRC channel i can talk to you, that you can teach me some stuffs? i'm interested

I mean you're on Sup Forums you can pretty learn anything here, if you really wanted couldn't you

Actual teaching rarely ever happens on Sup Forums also most people don’t even know anything

I'll bite #rgb canternet.org

This is why I stopped helping people who want to switch from Windows to something like GNU/Linux or FreeBSD. It ended up feeling like I've been wasting my time after seeing them switch back to Windows after a few weeks, complaining about the command line, and failing to understand how file system permissions work.

It feels a lot less like a waste of time to help more experienced users. They've shown they're willing to stick around, and they're able enough to find and read documentation on their own. Even when someone isn't around to provide immediate help, they're able to stay interested. Sharing with your peers is a lot more fun than seeing someone have a tantrum about having to actualy learn something, after you have spent a week or two trying to help them with their issues.

i blame phoneposters

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OP it's taken me awhile to accept this but I think it really is true. Most people just fucking suck. Society is held up by a relatively small percentage of the population, the rest just go along in their roles like npcs and aren't really anything more than cogs in the machine. When you try to enlighten them with anything, teach them anything at all. You might succeed in teaching the knowledge but unlikely that they will understand and integrate it well into their greater world model.

Sorry on people are just dumber than you realize on average

Is the Linux command line book a good introduction to programming? Is it useful for windows as well?