Wow!

It is fantastic to have more people interested. The coding might seem like magic, but really it is just 1's and 0's
up or down
on or off

Then from that you build simple logics:

AND
1 & 1 = 1
1 & 0 = 0
0 & 1 = 0
0 & 0 = 0

OR
1 | 1 = 1
1 | 0 = 1
0 | 1 = 1
0 | 0 = 0

XOR
1 ^ 1 = 0
1 ^ 0 = 1
0 ^ 1 = 1
0 ^ 0 = 0

From these, you can build any sort of arithmetic, and then crypto algorithms
toss in some load and store with compares and you get a Turing complete language that can calculate any function

Fundamentally, coding is about making sure the 1's and 0's end up in the right place at the right time. If you are starting learning, try to start at the lowest levels. I notice a lot of people nowadays dont even know the type of assembly code that is running underneath all the fancy objects and abstractions. All that stuff is great if you want to quickly put something together, but if you are resource limited you need to code at the lowest level possible.

After all the guard rails and safety stuff has to be written in something!

James

P.S. still looking for testers for the SuperNET API which will soon have the "teleport" API released into testing. No coding knowledge needed, just common sense and ability to use command line. I also make a Makefile (I usually dont!) so getting a btcd running on Ubuntu is:

You need to make sure curl and clang are in your system:
sudo apt-get install clang
sudo apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev

then:
git clone https://github.com/jl777/btcd
cd btcd/libjl777
make onetime
make btcd

Now you should have a BitcoinDarkd all built! After that each time to get a new build:

./BitcoinDarkd stop
git pull
make btcd
./BitcoinDarkd

Of course you do need a SuperNET.conf file, but this will eventually be created during install process